{"id":27207,"date":"2013-03-07T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=27207"},"modified":"2013-03-06T17:50:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T21:50:57","slug":"bengali-harlem-and-the-lost-histories-of-south-asian-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=27207","title":{"rendered":"Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>03\/07\/2013<br \/>\n5 Washington Place, Room 101, New York, NY, 10003, United States<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Asian\/Pacific\/American Institute at NYU celebrates the release of Vivek Bald&#8217;s (PhD, NYU American Studies, 2009) much anticipated Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America with a multimedia book talk. Bald skillfully retraces the history of early 20th century South Asian migration through the little-known stories of Indian Muslim peddlers who sold embroidered silks in the U.S. South and seamen who jumped ship in northeastern ports to work in factories and restaurants onshore.<\/p>\n<p>The program will feature a performance by actor and playwright Aladdin Ullah, whose father&#8217;s own migration history inspired Bald&#8217;s research, a screening of an excerpt of Bald and Ullah&#8217;s documentary film in-progress, and a reading from Bald&#8217;s fascinating new book.<\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apa.nyu.edu\/\">http:\/\/www.apa.nyu.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03\/07\/2013 5 Washington Place, Room 101, New York, NY, 10003, United States<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27208,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27207\/revisions\/27208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}