Save the Date: Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
Bengalis and their Puerto Rican and African-American wives at a 1952 banquet at New York's Pakistan League of America.
Bengali Harlem
Saturday, April 6, 2013
5:30 - 8:30 pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
FREE but Registration Required
Join us, along with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Asian American Writers Workshop, for a celebration of the publication of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (Harvard University Press) by scholar and documentary filmmaker Vivek Bald. This special event will explore the little-known stories of Muslim men from the Indian subcontinent who settled in Harlem in the 1920s-50s, married Puerto Rican, African American, and West Indian women, and became a small but significant part of neighborhoods like El Barrio.
The event will also feature East Harlem actor/playwright Alaudin Ullah will perform an excerpt from his one-man show "Dishwasher Dreams," which focuses on the story of his father Habib, who was one of the first Bengali men to settle in Harlem. The event will also include an excerpt from "In Search of Bengali Harlem," the documentary film on which Bald and Ullah are collaborating, followed by a panel discussion and community forum with children and descendants of some of the Bengali men who settled in Harlem in the mid-twentieth century. Plus a special guest DJ set by Himanshu Suri, aka Heems, formerly of the rap group Das Racist.
Join us and discover another aspect of AfroLatinidad.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
5:30 - 8:30 pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
FREE but Registration Required
Join us, along with the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Asian American Writers Workshop, for a celebration of the publication of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (Harvard University Press) by scholar and documentary filmmaker Vivek Bald. This special event will explore the little-known stories of Muslim men from the Indian subcontinent who settled in Harlem in the 1920s-50s, married Puerto Rican, African American, and West Indian women, and became a small but significant part of neighborhoods like El Barrio.
The event will also feature East Harlem actor/playwright Alaudin Ullah will perform an excerpt from his one-man show "Dishwasher Dreams," which focuses on the story of his father Habib, who was one of the first Bengali men to settle in Harlem. The event will also include an excerpt from "In Search of Bengali Harlem," the documentary film on which Bald and Ullah are collaborating, followed by a panel discussion and community forum with children and descendants of some of the Bengali men who settled in Harlem in the mid-twentieth century. Plus a special guest DJ set by Himanshu Suri, aka Heems, formerly of the rap group Das Racist.
Join us and discover another aspect of AfroLatinidad.