- Race relations, Cultural assimilation, South Asian Americans, Muslims
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.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and cool.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Vivek Bald
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 294
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780674070400
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