The Resource Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America, Vivek Bald
Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America, Vivek Bald
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The item Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America, Vivek Bald represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
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- Summary
- "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{u2019}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."--The dust-jacket front flap
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 294 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780674066663
- Label
- Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America
- Title
- Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America
- Statement of responsibility
- Vivek Bald
- Subject
-
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs | History -- 20th century
- Minorities -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Muslims -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- South Asia -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 20th century
- South Asian Americans -- Cultural assimilation
- South Asian Americans -- History -- 20th century
- Bengalen
- United States -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 20th century
- United States -- Ethnic relations | History -- 20th century
- United States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Working class -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Ḥaidar, Dādā Amīr, 1900-1989
- Ḥaidar, Dādā Amīr.hy
- USA
- Einwanderung
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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{u2019}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."--The dust-jacket front flap
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bald, Vivek
- Dewey number
- 305.891/4073
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E184.S69
- LC item number
- B35 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Ḥaidar, Dādā Amīr
- Ḥaidar, Dādā Amīr.hy
- South Asian Americans
- South Asian Americans
- Muslims
- Working class
- Minorities
- United States
- United States
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- United States
- South Asia
- Einwanderung
- USA
- Bengalen
- South Asian Americans
- South Asian Americans
- Muslims
- Working class
- United States
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
- United States
- South Asia
- Label
- Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America, Vivek Bald
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-275) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn795909452
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- x, 294 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780674066663
- Lccn
- 2012022231
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40021683160
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780674066663
- (OCoLC)795909452
- Label
- Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America, Vivek Bald
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-275) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn795909452
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- x, 294 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780674066663
- Lccn
- 2012022231
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40021683160
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780674066663
- (OCoLC)795909452
Subject
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs | History -- 20th century
- Minorities -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Muslims -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- South Asia -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 20th century
- South Asian Americans -- Cultural assimilation
- South Asian Americans -- History -- 20th century
- Bengalen
- United States -- Emigration and immigration | History -- 20th century
- United States -- Ethnic relations | History -- 20th century
- United States -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
- Working class -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Ḥaidar, Dādā Amīr, 1900-1989
- Ḥaidar, Dādā Amīr.hy
- USA
- Einwanderung
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