Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America [electronic resource] / Vivek Bald.
2013
E184.S69 B35 2013eb
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Title
Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America [electronic resource] / Vivek Bald.
Author
Bald, Vivek.
ISBN
9780674067578 electronic book
0674066669
9780674066663
0674066669
9780674066663
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (x, 294 p., [11] p. of plates) : ill., maps.
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E184.S69 B35 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.891/4073
Summary
Nineteenth-century Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their villages in Bengal. Demand for Oriental goods took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey's boardwalks into the segregated South. Bald's history reveals cross-racial affinities below the surface of early twentieth-century America.
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Includes bibliographical references ( p. 233-275) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction : lost in migration
Out of the East and into the South
Between "Hindoo" and "Negro"
From ships' holds to factory floors
The travels and transformations of Amir Haider Khan
Bengali Harlem
The life and times of a multiracial community
Conclusion : lost futures.
Out of the East and into the South
Between "Hindoo" and "Negro"
From ships' holds to factory floors
The travels and transformations of Amir Haider Khan
Bengali Harlem
The life and times of a multiracial community
Conclusion : lost futures.