Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America
Title
Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America
Subject
Muslim Americans Working class
Description
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.
Creator
Vivek Bald
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Date
2013
Type
E184.S69 B35
Identifier
2003.500.4539