Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America

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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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• Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian AmericaHarvard University Press2012-01-01
• Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian AmericaHarvard University Press2013-01-01
• Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian AmericaHarvard University Press2013-01-01
• Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian AmericapaperbackHarvard University Press2015-03-23