{"id":27158,"date":"2012-12-31T00:05:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T00:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27158"},"modified":"2012-12-31T00:06:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T00:06:00","slug":"where-ethnicity-was-fluid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27158","title":{"rendered":"Where Ethnicity Was Fluid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/30\/nyregion\/books-on-bengali-immigrants-rogue-police-officers-and-homeless-youths.html\" target=\"_blank\">Where Ethnicity Was Fluid<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2012-12-29<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/r\/sam_roberts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Roberts<\/a><\/strong>, Urban Affairs Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>In \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=25586\" target=\"_blank\">Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America<\/a>\u201d (Harvard University Press, $35), <a href=\"http:\/\/opendoclab.mit.edu\/vivek-bald-bengali-harlem\" target=\"_blank\">Vivek Bald<\/a>, who teaches writing and digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has produced an engaging account of a largely untold wave of immigration: Muslims from British India who arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;\u201cCollectively they used Americans\u2019 confusion over their \u2018race\u2019 to their advantage, developing a fluid and contextual approach to their identity,\u201d he writes. \u201cThey were \u2018white\u2019 when they attempted to claim citizenship, \u2018Hindoo\u2019 when selling exotic goods, \u2018black\u2019 or \u2018Porto Rican\u2019 when disappearing into U.S. cities or actively attempting to evade the immigration authorities.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/30\/nyregion\/books-on-bengali-immigrants-rogue-police-officers-and-homeless-youths.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where Ethnicity Was Fluid The New York Times 2012-12-29 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent In \u201cBengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America\u201d (Harvard University Press, $35), Vivek Bald, who teaches writing and digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has produced an engaging account of a largely untold wave of immigration: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,5,459,8,20],"tags":[2640,2702,2327,12149],"class_list":["post-27158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-book-reviews","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-new-york-times","tag-sam-roberts","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-vivek-bald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}