{"id":5084,"date":"2010-02-07T21:59:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T21:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5084"},"modified":"2013-08-18T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T17:03:09","slug":"asian-indian-men-and-hispanic-women-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5084","title":{"rendered":"Asian Indian Men and Hispanic Women in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230;Between 1913 and 1948\u2013the latter date the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Perez_v._Sharp\" target=\"_blank\">abrogation of California&#8217;s law prohibiting racial intermarriage<\/a>\u201380 percent of the Asian Indian men in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a> married Hispanic women.\u00a0 To this day, several thousand of the children and grandchildren of these <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Punjabi_people\" target=\"_blank\">Punjabi<\/a>-Hispanic marriages, which involved vows between Muslims and Catholics or Hindus and Catholics, can be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Imperial_Valley\" target=\"_blank\">Imperial Valley<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Joaquin_Valley\" target=\"_blank\">San Joaquin Valley<\/a> towns.\u00a0 Many of the families can still be found under the name of Singh\u2013the most common <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sikh\" target=\"_blank\">Sikh<\/a> surname\u2013but most have Hispanic first names, representing the mixed cultural heritage that emerged.\u00a0 Hindu temples and Muslim mosques can be found all over the San Joaquin and Imperial valleys&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sscnet.ucla.edu\/history\/facultyplain.php?lid=953&amp;display_one=1\" target=\"_blank\">Nash, Gary B.<\/a> \u201cThe Hidden History of Mestizo America\u201d, In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=3652\" target=\"_blank\">Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History<\/a><\/em>, edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/history.fas.nyu.edu\/object\/marthahodes\" target=\"_blank\">Martha Hodes<\/a>, 113, 115-116.\u00a0 New York, New York: New York University Press, 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Between 1913 and 1948\u2013the latter date the abrogation of California&#8217;s law prohibiting racial intermarriage\u201380 percent of the Asian Indian men in California married Hispanic women.\u00a0 To this day, several thousand of the children and grandchildren of these Punjabi-Hispanic marriages, which involved vows between Muslims and Catholics or Hindus and Catholics, can be found in Imperial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[455,2059,1867],"class_list":["post-5084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-california","tag-gary-b-nash","tag-gary-nash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084","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=5084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}