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Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America by Vivek Bald; ProQuest (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America about?
Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book AwardWinner of the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for HistoryA Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA Saveur “Essential Food Books That Define New York City” SelectionIn 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, these men built clandestine networks that stretched from the northeastern waterfront across the industrial Midwest.The stories of these early working-class migrants vividly contrast with our typical understanding of immigration. Vivek Bald's meticulous reconstruction reveals a lost history of South Asian sojourning and life-making in the United State
Who reads Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Vivek Bald; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674503854
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, History, Sociology
- Rating
- 4.28 / 5 (90 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13