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Book SynopsisIn
Here to Stay, Geetika Rudra takes readers on a journey across the United States to unearth the little-known histories of South Asian Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. She shows how South Asians made a home for themselves in America, despite racist laws that only granted citizenship to European immigrants.
Trade Review"
Here to Stay reflects a great deal of primary source research that the author has conducted along with a compelling narrative that braids aspects of her life story into the historic narrative of America’s whiteness as well as the biographies of A.K. Mozumbar, Bhagat Singh Thind, Kala Bagai, and many other early Indian emigres. This book makes a strong contribution to South Asian American Studies scholarship." -- Himanee Gupta-Carlson * author of Middletown and Asian America *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Who Gets to be American?
2. Mozumdar Crosses the Pacific
3. The American Dream
4. Where Are You From?
5. Defining Whiteness
6. The Differences Between Daylight and Darkness
7. The Dilemma
8. Return to Hindoo Alley
9. Freedom Fighters
10. Citizenship on Trial
11. The Aftermath
12. The Path to Acceptance
13. War
14. Resolution
A Note on Research
Acknowledgements
