The Bengali Harlem/Lost Histories Project: Documenting South Asian America’s Interracial Past
The Bengali Harlem/Lost Histories Project: Documenting South Asian America’s Interracial Past
Vivek Bald discusses his transmedia project documenting the lives of Bengali Muslim ship workers and silk peddlers who entered the United States at the height of the Asian Exclusion Era and quietly settled and intermarried within African American and Puerto Rican neighborhoods from Harlem to Tremรฉ in New Orleans and Black Bottom, Detroit.
