LEADER 04341nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910812729403321 005 20240416154729.0 010 $a0-674-07040-2 010 $a0-674-06757-6 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674067578 035 $a(CKB)2670000000310156 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25018192 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000803482 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12380912 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000803482 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10811473 035 $a(PQKB)10483732 035 $a(DE-B1597)178010 035 $a(OCoLC)1013937793 035 $a(OCoLC)894764441 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674067578 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301186 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642232 035 $a(OCoLC)819330031 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301186 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000310156 100 $a20120614d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America /$fVivek Bald 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (x, 294 p., [11] p. of plates )$cill., maps 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 $a0-674-06666-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 233-275) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aSouth Asian Americans$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSouth Asian Americans$xCultural assimilation 606 $aMuslims$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWorking class$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aHarlem (New York, N.Y.)$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aSouth Asia$xEmigration and immigration$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aSouth Asian Americans$xHistory 615 0$aSouth Asian Americans$xCultural assimilation. 615 0$aMuslims$xHistory 615 0$aWorking class$xHistory 676 $a305.891/4073 700 $aBald$b Vivek$01700865 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812729403321 996 $aBengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America$94084208 997 $aUNINA