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Voices from home and abroad New York City's Indo-Caribbean media

University of Texas at Austin, USA, LTanikella{at}mail.utexas.edu

This article examines how New York City's Indo-Caribbean media represents and constructs diasporic and transnational identities. Analyzing weekly newspapers, radio programs and websites, it argues that as media producers negotiate content and programing with their audiences they produce a varied and multiple `Indo-Caribbean voice'. Indo-Caribbean communities are linking up with home and with India in specific geographic locations in New York City and in locally produced mediated forums. In this article, these connections are mapped locally and transnationally to understand the role of other racialized communities in the development of an Indo-Caribbean presence in the public sphere. The media examined here represent Indo-Caribbean communities as they negotiate belonging in the US that is mediated through relationships with their home countries as well as the Indian migrant community from South Asia.

Key Words: Indo-Caribbean communities • migrant media • racial identities • South Asian diaspora • transnationalism

International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 12, No. 2, 167-185 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1367877908099498


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