ABSTRACT
Most of the Indian Americans who were born in the USA in the 1960s, the 1970s, and the 1980s were perhaps the only Asian American student in their respective classrooms. Although professors of Indian origin head some of the top business schools and other universities, Indian Americans have barely started participating in the management and leadership of the K-12 school systems in America. Indian Americans, most of them non-Christians, are neither black nor white, and being a “double minority,” they remain largely invisible on the Southern racial map since, as Joshi goes on to say, “concepts of race remain largely defined by the dyadic paradigm of Black and White.” Despite their large numbers, Indians in particular and Asian Americans are inadequately represented in the local government positions, such as on the school boards, or among school teachers. Studies show that there is a link between the formal and the informal methods of civic engagement of a community in a society.
