Description: Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America, Paperback by Bald, Vivek, ISBN 0674503856, ISBN-13 9780674503854, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award Winner of the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for History A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year A Saveur “Essential Food Books That Define New York City” Selection 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.
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Book Title: Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Islamic Studies, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), United States / 20th Century, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Emigration & Immigration, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, History
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Vivek Bald
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
