Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America

Vivek Bald

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$24.00 • £19.95 • €21.50

ISBN 9780674503854

Publication Date: 03/23/2015

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320 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Vivek Bald is Associate Professor of Comparative Media Studies and Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the director of the documentary films Taxi-vala/Auto-biography and Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music, and is working on a film based on Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America. More information can be found at bengaliharlem.com.

Awards & Accolades

A Times Literary Supplement Favourite Book of 2019

A Saveur “Essential Food Books That Define New York City” Selection, 2017

2015 AAAS Book Award, History Category, Association for Asian American Studies

2014 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society

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