@article{10.4159/harvard.9780674067578, recid = {1403974}, author = {Bald, Vivek.}, title = {Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America [electronic resource] /}, publisher = {Harvard University Press,}, address = {Cambridge, Mass. :}, number = {10.4159/harvard.9780674067578}, pages = {1 online resource (x, 294 p., [11] p. of plates) :}, year = {2013}, abstract = {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.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1403974}, }