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In this book, we analyze the psycho-social consequences faced by Indian American children after exposure to the school textbook discourse on Hinduism and ancient India. We demonstrate that there is an intimate connection—an almost exact correspondence—between James Mill’s colonial-racist discourse (Mill was the head of the British East India Company) and the current school textbook discourse. This racist discourse, camouflaged under the cover of political correctness, produces the same psychological impacts on Indian American children that racism typically causes: shame, inferiority, embarrassment, identity confusion, assimilation, and a phenomenon akin to racelessness, where children dissociate from the traditions and culture of their ancestors.


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Talk:Prof. Cynthia Franklin

From Hindupedia, the Hindu Encyclopedia

By Sachi Anjunkar


Cynthia Franklin is a professor of English at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa[1] as of April 2024.

She has published no books, papers, or research pertaining to Hindus, the Indus Civilization, or caste.

In 2016, she signed a letter[2] addressed to the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. The letter stated the following:

  1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization. The Rg Veda contains numerous mentions of horses and chariots but there is no conclusive material or fossil evidence for either at any Indus valley archeological site."
  2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."

Publications[edit]

  1. Franklin, Cynthia, and Laura Lyons. From Grief to Grievance: Ethics and Politics in the Testimony of Anti-War Mothers. Life Writing, vol. 5, 2008, pp. 237-250, doi:10.1080/14484520802386733.
  2. Spivak, Gayatri, Laura Lyons, and Cynthia Franklin. On the Cusp of the Personal and the Impersonal: An Interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Biography, vol. 27, 2004, pp. 203-221, doi:10.1353/bio.2004.0038.
  3. Franklin, Cynthia, and Laura Lyons. Bodies of Evidence and the Intricate Machines of Untruth. Biography, vol. 27, 2004, pp. v-xxii, doi:10.1353/bio.2004.0031.
  4. Franklin, Cynthia, and Laura Lyons. Land, Leadership, and Nation: Haunani-Kay Trask on the Testimonial Uses of Life Writing in Hawai'i. Biography, vol. 27, 2004, pp. 222-249, doi:10.1353/bio.2004.0032.
  5. Franklin, Cynthia. Writing Women's Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Multi-Genre Anthologies. 1997.
  6. Franklin, Cynthia G. Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea. 1st ed., Fordham University Press, 2023. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.2299522.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Cynthia Franklin Profile accessed 17 April, 2024
  2. ↑ 5-17 Kamala Visweswaran South Asian Faculty Group.pdf
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