![]() ![]() 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. ![]() 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. 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. 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. Winner of the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for HistoryĪ Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearĪ Saveur "Essential Food Books That Define New York City" Selection Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award ![]()
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