In early January, New Yorker magazine mistakenly tagged Priyanka Chopra in an Instagram photo of Padma Lakshmi. Chopra is a Bollywood-turnedHollywood actor married to musician Nick Jonas. Lakshmi is a chef and host of the cooking competition show, Top Chef. Both women are of South Asian-Indian descent. Lakshmi responded, “I know we all look alike but ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄. #desigirls” The Chopra/Lakshmi mix up brings to light larger questions around racial-ethnic identities and how people choose to identify. India is home to over a billion people and has over three dozen provinces, each with its cultural and/or linguistic identity. Chopra hails from the state of Bihar in northeastern India. Lakshmi is from the city of Chennai in Tamil Nadu, in the southeast. The two women share racial phenotypes commonly associated with Indians: straight, dark hair, brown eyes, and brown skin. Unfortunately, the phenomenon of outlets misidentifying people of color or using the wrong images isn’t uncommon. In November 2019, Vogue labeled a picture of Muslim American activist Noor Tagouri as Noor Bukhari, a Pakistani actor. Earlier in the year, the same outlet identified photographs of actors Gemma Chan and Tan Kheng Hua as actor Michelle Yeoh and businesswoman Liv Lo. This paper seeks to explore the complexities of being Indo-Caribbean American to provide educators a better understanding of how to help their students navigate racial-ethnic identity spaces that are not clearly defined and negotiate when others seek to define, or mis-define, them. In this paper, I will utilize an autoethnographic entry point into the history of the term “Indo-Caribbean” to explore the idea of diaspora, culture and third space. I will then offer a framework and series of questions for practitioners to use if they choose to support the unpacking of culture and identity amongst their students. Finally, I return to reflections on the hybrid nature of being Indo-Caribbean American.

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仅仅因为我们看起来相似并不意味着我们是相同的：使用对印度-加勒比地区身份的检查来告知第三个太空镜头

一月初，《纽约客》杂志在帕德玛·拉克希米的 Instagram 照片中错误地标记了朴雅卡·乔普拉。乔普拉是一位宝莱坞出身的好莱坞演员，嫁给了音乐家尼克乔纳斯。Lakshmi 是一名厨师，也是烹饪比赛节目 Top Chef 的主持人。这两名女性都是南亚印度裔。拉克希米回答说：“我知道我们都长得很像，但 ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄。#desigirls” Chopra/Lakshmi 的混搭揭示了围绕种族身份以及人们如何选择识别的更大问题。印度拥有超过 10 亿人口，拥有 30 多个省，每个省都有自己的文化和/或语言特征。乔普拉来自印度东北部的比哈尔邦。拉克希米来自东南部泰米尔纳德邦的钦奈市。这两位女性有着与印度人相关的种族表型：直发、黑发、棕色的眼睛和棕色的皮肤。不幸的是，网点错误识别有色人种或使用错误图像的现象并不少见。2019 年 11 月，Vogue 将一张美国穆斯林活动家 Noor Tagouri 的照片标记为巴基斯坦演员 Noor Bukhari。今年早些时候，同一家媒体将演员陈庆华和陈庆华的照片确定为演员杨紫琼和女商人丽芙罗。本文旨在探索成为印裔加勒比裔美国人的复杂性，让教育工作者更好地了解如何帮助他们的学生驾驭尚未明确定义的种族身份空间，并在其他人试图定义或错误定义时进行协商。 . 在本文中，我将利用自我民族志进入“印度-加勒比”一词历史的切入点来探索侨民、文化和第三空间的概念。如果从业者选择支持在学生中解开文化和身份，我将提供一个框架和一系列问题供他们使用。最后，我回到对印裔加勒比裔美国人混血本性的反思。