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Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
Author: Vivek Bald
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 de...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674066663
ISBN-10: 0674066669
Publication Date: 1/7/2013
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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