Farha Ternikar - SAC

Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, The South Asia Center present:

Farha Ternikar,  Associate Professor, LeMoyne College

Beyond authentic curry and halal kebobs: Pakistani immigrants, intersectionality and culinary consumption

Identity maintenance for Pakistani immigrant women is at least three-fold. Through food, not only are women able to maintain an imagined “authentic” desi,  and often Muslim identity, but also a gendered ideal of desi womanhood in the diaspora.  Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in Chicago, this project applies intersectionality and adds religion as an important framework for understanding culinary consumption in South Asian immigrant communities.

For more information on accessibility, or to request accommodation, please contact: Emera Bridger Wilson, elbridge@syr.edu

Sponsored by the South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs

Co-sponsored by Department of Public Health, Food Studies, and Nutrition, Falk College