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Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
Vivek Bald
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Description for Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
Paperback. Nineteenth-century Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island, bags heavy with silks from their villages in Bengal. Demand for "Oriental goods" took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey's boardwalks to the segregated South. Bald's history reveals cross-racial affinities below the surface of early twentieth-century America. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBLW; JFFN; JFSL; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 26. Weight in Grams: 366.
In the final years of the nineteenth century, small groups of Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island every summer, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their home villages in Bengal. The American demand for Oriental goods took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey's beach boardwalks into the heart of the segregated South. Two decades later, hundreds of Indian Muslim seamen began jumping ship in New York and Baltimore, escaping the engine rooms of British steamers to find less brutal work onshore. As factory owners sought their labor and anti-Asian immigration laws closed in around them, ... Read more
In the final years of the nineteenth century, small groups of Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island every summer, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their home villages in Bengal. The American demand for Oriental goods took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey's beach boardwalks into the heart of the segregated South. Two decades later, hundreds of Indian Muslim seamen began jumping ship in New York and Baltimore, escaping the engine rooms of British steamers to find less brutal work onshore. As factory owners sought their labor and anti-Asian immigration laws closed in around them, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
365g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674503854
SKU
V9780674503854
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About Vivek Bald
Vivek Bald is Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the director of three documentary films: Taxi-vala/Auto-biography, Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music, and In Search of Bengali Harlem (forthcoming). More information can be found at http://bengaliharlem.com.
Reviews for Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
[Bald] has produced an engaging account of a largely untold wave of immigration: Muslims from British India who arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Sam Roberts New York Times (12/29/2012) A revelatory book... Vivek Bald's new book on Bengali migration tells a history that has been largely unknown.
Mini Basu CNN.com (02/14/2013) Captur[es] a unique narrative of ... Read more
Sam Roberts New York Times (12/29/2012) A revelatory book... Vivek Bald's new book on Bengali migration tells a history that has been largely unknown.
Mini Basu CNN.com (02/14/2013) Captur[es] a unique narrative of ... Read more