Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America

Type

Book

Authors

Vivek Bald

Tags

State & Local, Immigrants, Historical Study & Educational Resources, Emigration & Immigration, African-American Studies, Asian American Studies, 20th Century, Immigration, Race & Ethnicity

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. - from Amzon

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