Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Mar 23, 2015
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780674503854
Description: Nineteenth-century Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island, bags heavy with silks from their villages in Bengal. Demand for “Oriental goods” took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey’s boardwalks to the segregated South. Bald’s history reveals cross-racial affinities below the surface of early twentieth-century America.