Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America /
نام عام مواد
[Book]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Vivek Bald
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
x, 294 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates :
ساير جزييات
illustrations, maps ;
ابعاد
25 cm.pages cm
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متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references ( pages 233-275) and index
یادداشتهای مربوط به مندرجات
متن يادداشت
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
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"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, 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 States. At a time when Asian immigrants were vilified and criminalized, Bengali Muslims quietly became part of some of America's most iconic neighborhoods of color, from Tremé in New Orleans to Detroit's Black Bottom, from West Baltimore to Harlem. Many started families with Creole, Puerto Rican, and African American women. As steel and auto workers in the Midwest, as traders in the South, and as halal hot dog vendors on 125th Street, these immigrants created lives as remarkable as they are unknown. Their stories of ingenuity and intermixture challenge assumptions about assimilation and reveal cross-racial affinities beneath the surface of early twentieth-century America."--From the dust-jacket front flap
نام شخص به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
Ḥaidar, Dādā Amīr,1900-1989
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Muslims-- United States-- History-- 20th century
موضوع مستند نشده
South Asian Americans-- Cultural assimilation
موضوع مستند نشده
South Asian Americans-- History-- 20th century
موضوع مستند نشده
Working class-- United States-- History-- 20th century
نام جغرافیایی به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
Harlem (New York, N.Y.), Race relations, History, 20th century
موضوع مستند نشده
South Asia, Emigration and immigration, History, 20th century
موضوع مستند نشده
United States, Emigration and immigration, History, 20th century
موضوع مستند نشده
United States, Race relations, History, 20th century
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رده بندی ديویی
شماره
305
.
891/4073
ويراست
23
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
E184
.
S69
نشانه اثر
B35
2013
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )