bringing together south asian diasporas, their funding of hindutva with the racial politics and carceral systems of the american south, expulsion of asians in uganda and women's sexuality.. it is almost as if it is only now that I am understanding why the movie is such a masterpiece!

Mississippi Masala asks: What might it mean to forge a politics explicitly based on an investment in the places where we are, rather than in an imagined ideal of the places from which we came?

"Indians at points created a strategic alliance with white supremacy. Indian migration is also a longer history of the dispossession of Black and Indigenous people, which made possible the massive wealth amassed by Indian diasporic communities in North America."

"Police, policing, and cruel authoritarianism link Uganda and the United States; the paramilitary forces of the former parallel the oppressive local police in racist Mississippi.. Southern police govern everyday relationships in an ever racially divided landscape."

so excited for this!!!