Karen Isaksen Leonard

 

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PUBLICATIONS

Available on line

•  Leonard, Karen. "California's Punjabi-Mexican-Americans," The World and I (May 1989), 612-623; reprinted in Sucheng Chan, Douglas Henry Daniels, Mario T. Garcia and Terry P. Wilson (Eds.), Peoples of Color in the American West , (Lexington, MA: Heath, 1993), 308-319.

Books

•  Leonard, Karen Isaksen. Social History of an Indian Caste: The Kayasths of Hyderabad , University of California, 1978. Indian edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1978. 2nd edition, Orient Longman , Hyderabad, India, 1992.

•  Leonard, Karen Isaksen. Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi-Mexican-Americans. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. 2nd (paperback) ed., 1994.

•  Leonard, Karen Isaksen. The South Asian Americans. (in The New Americans: The Greenwood Ethnic Cultural Heritage Series, series ed. Ronald Bayor). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997.

•  Leonard, Karen Isaksen. Muslims in the United States: the State of Research . New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2003.

Edited Books and Journal issues

•  Ed. Karen Isaksen Leonard, “Young American Muslims: Multiple Identities,” issue of Muslim World , Oct. 2005.

•  Ed. Karen Isaksen Leonard, co-editors Alex Stepick, Manuel Vasquez, and Jennifer Holdaway, Immigrant Faiths: Transforming Religious Life in America . NY: Altamira Press, 2005.

 

Professional Articles

•  Leonard, Karen. "Give Me Your Sorrows," translation of Urdu short story by Rajinder Singh Bedi, Indian Literature , Delhi, 1968.

•  Leonard, Karen. "The Hyderabad Political System and Its Participants," Journal of Asian Studies (May, 1971), 569-582.

•  Leonard, Karen. "The Deccani Synthesis in Old Hyderabad: An Historiographic Essay," Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society (October, 1973, Karachi), 205-218.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Cultural Change and Bureaucratic Modernization in 19th Century Hyderabad," in P. M. Joshi (Ed.) Studies of the Foreign Relations of India (Hyderabad, India, 1975), 442-454.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Women and Social Change in Modern India," Feminist Studies 3: 2 (Summer, 1976), 117-130.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Mulki--non-Mulki Conflict in Hyderabad State," in ed. Robin Jeffrey, People, Princes and Paramount Power: Society and Politics in the Indian Princely States (Oxford University Press, 1978), 65-108.

•  Leonard, Karen. "The Great Firm Theory of Mughal Decline," Comparative Studies in Society and History (April, 1979), 151-167.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Women in India: Some Recent Perspectives," Pacific Affairs (April, 1979) 95-l07.

•  Leonard, Karen, and Susan Weller, "Changing Marriage Patterns in India: the Hyderabad Kayasths, l900-l975," American Ethnologist , 7(3) (August, 1980), 504-517.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Bankers in Nineteenth Century Hyderabad State Politics," Modern Asian Studies 15:2 (April, 1981), 177-201.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Indigenous Banking Firms in Mughal India: A Reply, " Comparative Studies in Society and History ," 23:2 (April 1981), 309-313.

•  Leonard, Karen, and John Leonard, "Social Reform and Women's Participation in Political Culture: Andhra and Madras," ed. by Gail Minault, The Extended Family: Women and Political Participation in India and Pakistan , (Delhi: South Asia Books (Mo.) and Chanakhya Publications, 1981), 19-45.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Aspects of the Nationalist Movement in the Princely States of India," Quarterly Review of Historical Studies , XXI: 2 & 3 (1981-82), 3-9.

•  Leonard, Karen. "A Note on "Given Names and Chicano Intermarriage," La Red (monthly newsletter of the National Chicano Research Network), 52 (March 1982), 4-5.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Marriage and Family Life Among Early Asian Indian Immigrants," Population Review 25: 1 & 2, (1982), 67-75.

•  Leonard, Karen. "The Lack of Sex Differences in Declining Endogamy in Hyderabad, India," Journal of Anthropological Research , 38:4 (1982), 351-62.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Social Mobility in Urban Hyderabad: An Unbounded Caste Category," in G. R. Gupta (Ed.), Main Currents in Indian Sociology: Urban India , Vol. VI, Vikas (New Delhi, 1983), 356-377.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Mexican-Hindus and Asian Indians: Old and New in Orange County" in Michael Dixon and Valerie Smith (Eds.) Second Lives: The Contemporary Immigrant/Refugee Experience in Orange County , South Coast Repertory Theatre (Costa Mesa, 1983), 87-91.

•  Leonard, Karen, and B. LaBrack. "Conflict and Compatibility in Punjabi-Mexican Immigrant Families in Rural California: 1915-1965," Journal of Marriage and the Family 46:3 (August 1984), 527-537. Reprinted in Spanish in Estudio De Asia Y Africa , No. 74, Vol. 22:4 (Winter 1987), 471-496.

•  Leonard, Karen. "The Pioneer Sikhs: Religious Tolerance," Sikh Samachar , Vol. VIII, No.3 (November 1984), 13-15.

•  Leonard, Karen. "The Pahkar Singh Murders: a Punjabi Response to California's Alien Land Law," Amerasia Journal 11:1 (Spring/Summer 1984), 75-87. Reprinted in Charles McClain (Ed.), Asian Immigrants and American Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Conn: Garland Publishing). NY: Garland Publishing, 1994). 121-134. Reprinted also in Min Song and Jean Wu, eds., Asian American Studies (Rutgers University Press, 1999).

•  Leonard, Karen. "Punjabi Farmers and California's Alien Land Law," Agricultural History 59:4 (Oct. 1985), 549-562. Reprinted in Charles McClain (Ed.), Asian Immigrants and American Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (NY: Garland Publishing, 1994), 107-120; reprinted 2002 in eds. Eric Yamamoto, Chris Iijimi, and Angela E. Oh, Law Through Asian American Eyes: A Critical Inquiry for Multi-racial America (NY: New York University Press, forthcoming).

•  Leonard, Karen. "Caste in South Asian History," in Ainslee Embree (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Asian History , Asia Society and Columbia University (NY: Scribners, 1987), 229-233.

•  Leonard, Karen. "South Asian Immigrants: Then and Now," San Jose Studies 14:2 (Spring 1988), 71-84.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Ethnicity Confounded: Punjabi Pioneers in California," in J. O'Connell, M. Israel, Willard G. Oxtoby, (Eds.), with W. H. McLeod and J.S. Grewal, (Visiting Eds.), Sikh History and Religion in the 20th Century (Centre for South Asian Studies: University of Toronto, 1988), 314-333.

•  Leonard, Karen, and Bruce LaBrack. "Replica a Devalle," Estudio de Asia y Africa , No. 75, Vol. 23:1 (Spring 1988), 141-143.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Immigrant Punjabis in Early Twentieth-Century California," in Sucheng Chan (Ed.) Social and Gender Boundaries in the United States (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1989), 101-122.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Pioneer Voices from California: Reflections on Race, Religion, and Ethnicity," in N. Gerald Barrier and Verne A. Dusenbery (Eds.), The Sikh Diaspora: Migration and the Experience beyond Punjab (New Delhi: Manohar and South Asia Publications, 1989), 120-139.

•  Leonard, Karen. "California's Punjabi-Mexican-Americans," The World and I (May 1989), 612-623; reprinted in Sucheng Chan, Douglas Henry Daniels, Mario T. Garcia and Terry P. Wilson (Eds.), Peoples of Color in the American West , (Lexington, MA: Heath, 1993), 308-319.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Mourning in a New Land: Changing Asian Practices in Southern California," Journal of Orange County Studies 34 (Fall 1989/Spring 1990), 62-69.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Punjabi Pioneers in California: Political Skills on a New Frontier," South Asia , 12:2(1989), 69-81.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Scholarly Responsibilities," Amerasia Journal 16:2 (1990), 147-149.

•  Leonard, John, and Karen Leonard. "Viresalingam and the Ideology of Social Change in Andhra," in K. Jones, Religious Controversy in British India: Dialogues in South Asian Languages (Albany: SUNY, 1992), 151-175 and 269-280.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Ethnic Identity and Gender: South Asians in the United States," in Milton Israel and N.K. Wagle (Eds.), Ethnicity, Identity, Migration: The South Asian Context (Toronto: Center for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto, 1993), 165-180.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Love, Intimacy, and Passion: Shapers of Family and Kinship," review article in Reviews in Anthropology , (1992, Vol. 21: 85-93) of Hewlett, Barry S., Intimate Fathers: The Nature and context of Aka Pygmy Paternal Infant Care , (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991); Trawick, Margaret, Notes on Love in a Tamil Family , (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990); and Weston, Kath, Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991).

•  Leonard, Karen with C.S. Tibrewal. "Asian Indians in Southern California: Occupations and Ethnicity," in eds. Parminder Bhachu and Ivan Light, Comparative Immigration and Entrepreneurship: Culture, Capital and Ethnic Networks . (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction, 1993), 141-162.

•  Historical Constructions of Ethnicity: California's Punjabi Immigrants," Journal of American Ethnic History , 12:4(1993), 3-26.

•  "Ethnic Celebrations in Rural California: Punjabi Mexicans and Others," in ed. Pamela Frese, Celebrations of Identity: Multiple Voices . (Bergin and Garvey, 1993), 145-160.

•  "Intermarriage and Ethnicity: Punjabi Mexican Americans, Mexican Japanese, and Filipino Americans," Explorations in Ethnic Studies , 1993 (16:2), 147-163.

•  Leonard, Karen. "The Punjabi Pioneer Experience in America: Recognition or Denial?" International Journal of Punjab Studies 1, 2 (1994), 271-294.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Mixing it up in California: A Century of Punjabi Mexican Experience," SAMAR, Summer 1995, 10-14.

•  Leonard, Karen. "The Hyderabad Kayasths: Constructions of Identity," in A.K. Ghosh (Ed.) Sociology in the Rubric of Social Science (Calcutta: 1996 ), 262-274.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Flawed Transmission? Punjabi Pioneers in California," in ed. Pashaura Singh, Transmission of Punjabi Heritage to the Diaspora (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1996), 97-111.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Finding One's Own Place: the Imposition of Asian Landscapes on Rural California," in eds. James Ferguson and Akhil Gupta, Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997), 118-136.

•  Leonard, Karen, "Changing South Asian Identities in the United States," in eds. Lois Weis and Maxine Seller, Beyond Black and White: New Faces and Voices in U.S. Schools (New York: State University of New York Press, 1998), 165-179.

•  Leonard, Karen. "First Indian Settlers in the United States," in India, 50 Years of Independence: Golden Jubilee Commemorative Souvenir (Federation of Indian Associations, Washington, D.C., 1997), 51-52.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Hyderabad Remembered," The Newsletter (Hyderabad Deccan Association of Chicago, 11:1, Oct. 1997), 3-7.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Pakistan me Sabiq Riyasat-i-Hyderabad Dekan ke Bashande Qumet ki Tabdeli ke sath," Majalla-i-Osmania (Karachi, 4:1 [Jan.-March] 1998), 31-46.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Marriages between Asian Americans and Mexicans," in Encyclopedia of the American West (N.Y.: MacMillan, 1996), 745-746.

•  Leonard, Karen. "East Indians in the West," in Encyclopedia of the American West (N.Y.: MacMillan, 1996), 472-473.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Punjabi Mexicans," in Encyclopedia of American Immigrant Cultures (N.Y.: MacMillan, 1997), vol. II, 723-728.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Remembering/Claiming Homelands: California's Punjabi Pioneers," ed. Jackie Assayag, The Resources of History: Traditions, Transmission and/or Invention? (Pondicherry [India]: Institut Francais de Pondicherry, 1998); reprinted in Amerasia Journal , issue ed. by Henry Yu and Valerie Matsumoto on APoints of Memory: Formations of Asian American and Pacific Islander History, 28:3 (2002), 109-126.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Second Generation Sikhs in America," eds. Pashaura Singh and N. Geral Barrier, Sikh Identity (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1998), 275-297.

•  Leonard, Karen. "The Management of Desire: Sexuality and Marriage for Young South Asian Women in America," ed. Sangeeta Gupta, Emerging Voices : South Asian AmericanWomen Redefine Self, Family and Community (New Delhi: Sage, 1999), 107-119.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Construction of Identity in Diaspora: Emigrants from Hyderabad, India," ed. Carla Petievich, Expanding Landscapes: South Asians in Diaspora (Delhi: Manohar, 1999) 41-69.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Punjabi Mexican American Experiences of Multiethnicity," ed. Paul Spickard and W. Jeffrey Burroughs, Ethnicity and Multiethnicity: Constructing and Deconstructing Identity (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000), 192-202.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Identities in the Diaspora: Surprising Voices," ed. Martin F. Manalansan IV, Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America , (Philadelphia Temple University Press, 2000), 177-198.

•  Leonard, Karen. "Hyderabadis in Pakistan: Changing Nations," ed. Crispin Bates, Community, Empire, and Migration: South Asians in Diaspora , (London: Macmillan, 2000), 224-244.

•  Leonard, Karen. South Asian Women in the Gulf: Families and Futures Reconfigured, eds. Sonita Sarker and Esha De, Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002), 213-231.

•  Leonard, Karen. Guests in the Gulf: South Asian Expatriates, eds. Richard Perry and William Maurer, Globalization Under Construction: Governmentality, Law, and Identity (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 129-170.

•  Leonard, Karen. Hyderabad?, in eds. Melvin and Carol Ember, Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures 2 (2002), 375-382.

•  Leonard, Karen. State, Culture, and Religion: Political Action and Representation among South 58. Asians in North America, Diaspora (2001), 21-38.

•  Leonard, Karen, A South Asian Leadership of American Muslims, ed. Yvonne Haddad, Muslims in the West: From Sojourners to Citizens : (Oxford: 2002), 233-249.

•  Leonard, Karen. American Muslim Politics: Discourses and Practices, Ethnicities 3:2 (June 2003), 147-181.

•  Leonard, Karen. Three Notable Pakistani Americans, ed. Elliott Barkan, Ethnic Heritage Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 2001) 299-300, 301-2, 361-2.

•  Leonard, Karen. Muslim Identities in North America, Islamic Culture (April 2001), 41-56.

•  Leonard, Karen. New Homes in the World: India's Hyderabadis Abroad, Islamic Culture (April 2002), 217-230.

•  Leonard, Karen. Reassessing Indirect Rule in Hyderabad: Rule, Ruler, or Sons-in-law of the State? Modern Asian Studies , 36:3 (2002), 363-379.

•  Leonard, Karen. American Muslims Before and After September 11, 2001, Economic and Political Weekly (Mumbai) 37:24 (June 15, 2002), 2293-2302.

•  American Muslims: Race, Religion, and Nation, ISIM Newsletter (International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, from the Netherlands): 14 (April, 2004), 16-17.

•  Leonard, Karen. Asian Indian Americans, for 2 nd ed. of Multiculturalism in the United States : A Comparative Guide to Acculturation and Ethnicities , eds. John Buenker and Lorman A. Ratner, (Greenwood Press, 2005.

•  Leonard, Karen. “South Asian Religions in the US: New Contexts and Configurations,” in eds. Gita Rajan and Shailja Sharma, New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the United States at the Turn of the 21 st Century . Palo Alto: Stanford, 2005.

•  Leonard, Karen. “The White Mughals: a review of William Dalrymple's Work,” Deccan Studies 2:2 (July-December 2004), .

•  Leonard, Karen. “Introduction,” in ed. Karen Isaksen Leonard, co-editors Alex Stepick, Manuel Vasquez, and Jennifer Holdaway, Immigrant Faiths: Transforming Religious Life in America . (NY: Altamira Press, 2005),

•  Leonard, Karen. “Young American Muslims: Multiple Identities,” Muslim World

•  Leonard, Karen with Lorraine Sakata. “Indo-Muslim Music, Poetry, and Dance in America,” Amerasia Journal , issue 31:1 2005, pp. 81-103.

Professional Articles, forthcoming

•  Leonard, Karen. “South Asians in the Indian Ocean World: Language, Policing, and Gender Practices in Kuwait and the UAE,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

•  Leonard, Karen. “Immigrants from India,” for Harvard Encyclopedia of the New Americans , eds. Mary Waters and Reed Ueda (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, forthcoming).

•  .Leonard, Karen. Two pieces, “Kayasths” and “Hyderabad State,” for Encyclopedia of India, ed. Stanley Wolpert (Farmington Hills, Michigan: Charles Scribner's Sons, forthcoming).

•  Leonard, Karen. “Muslims in the West: the Americas,” The New Cambridge History of Islam vol. 6, ed.Robert Hefner, Cambridge University Press.