"This marvelous book enters and illuminates the complex project of antiracist work with verve and delicacy. Kavitha Koshy traverses new and exciting debates on racialization, immigration, labor, community, identity, and activism to present us with a rich structural analysis, an original historical framework, and an exhilarating call to action. This book is a superb assessment of the 'sidelines,' which as Koshy shows, trap far too many Indian Americans from identifying and engaging with the very conditions that limit us."
— Shefali Chandra, Washington University in St. Louis
"Koshy writes a powerfully insightful history of the deliberate entanglement of racialized immigration policies, racial capitalism, and neoliberalism that has constructed Indians in the United States as a ‘model minority’ on the racial sidelines. Extending Vijay Prashad’s pointed question to this model minority, ‘How does it feel to be the solution?’ Koshy asks in the contemporary context of increased South Asian presence in public culture, ‘What does it mean to take up too much space?’ Koshy’s book unflinchingly challenges Indian immigrants in the United States to come to terms with their own complicity with whiteness by tracing the resonances between histories of colonialism, the foundations of a post-colonial society that failed to decenter caste, and the rise of authoritarian nationalism in India with settler colonialism, slavery, liberal multiculturalism, and neoliberalism in the United States. The task, she contends, is to continue to build on a decolonial ethic as the ground to ‘make space’ and build solidarities. An important read!"
— Madhavi Murty, University of California, Santa Cruz