Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America /

Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America / Vivek Bald.

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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 b...

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Main Author: Bald, Vivek
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Ḥaidar, Dādā Amīr, > 1900-1989.
South Asian Americans > History > 20th century.
South Asian Americans > Cultural assimilation.
Muslims > United States > History > 20th century.
Working class > United States > History > 20th century.
Emigration and immigration.
Muslims.
Race relations.
South Asian Americans.
Working class.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
United States > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
South Asia > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
New York (State) > New York > Harlem.
South Asia.
United States.
History.

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