In this talk, we engage debates around the cultural politics of yoga taking place within the United States and in relation to the history, culture, and social orders of India. We identify two distinct streams of this debate. In the first, one set of Indian-American diaspora voices criticizes the extent to which yoga has become a practice dominated by white upper-class practitioners, tracing this dominance to neocolonialism, postcolonial capitalism, the marketing of Orientalism, white racism, and the subjugation of the Global South.
