Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America by Vivek Bald

Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America

Vivek Bald

294 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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