Description: Redefining the Immigrant South : Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston During the Cold War, Paperback by Quraishi, Uzma, ISBN 1469655195, ISBN-13 9781469655192, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US "In the early years of the Cold War, the United States mounted expansive public diplomacy programs in the Global South, including initiatives with the recently partitioned states of India and Pakistan. . operations in these two countries became the second- and fourth-largest in the world, creating migration links that resulted in the emergence of American universities, such as the University of Houston, as immigration hubs for the highly selective, student-led South Asian migration stream starting in the 1950s. By the late twentieth century, Houston's South Asian community had become one of the most prosperous in the metropolitan area and one of the largest in the country. Mining archives and using new oral histories, Uzma Quraishi traces this pioneering community from its midcentury roots to the early twenty-first century, arguing that South Asian immigrants appealed to class conformity and endorsed the model minority myth to navigate the complexities of a shifting Sunbelt South"--
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Book Title: Redefining the Immigrant South : Indian and Pakistani Immigration
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Name: Redefining the Immigrant South : Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston During the Cold War
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication Year: 2020
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: United States / 20th Century, Emigration & Immigration, Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV)
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Uzma Quraishi
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: New Directions in Southern Studies
Format: Trade Paperback
