ushistoryminuswhiteguys:fuckyeahapihistory:In California, a small “Mexican-Hindu” community rose up
ushistoryminuswhiteguys:fuckyeahapihistory:In California, a small “Mexican-Hindu” community rose up in the early 20th century, as male immigrants from Punjab – mostly Sikh – married Hispanic women and started uniquely bicultural families. U.S. immigration laws restricted South Asian women from immigrating to America, while miscegenation laws forbid South Asian men from marrying white women. Marriages between South Asian men and Hispanic women – classified by law within the same racial category – resulted in bicultural children with names like “Maria Singh” and “Jose Rai.”This happened in many Mexican-American communities with South- and East- Asian immigrants. If anyone would like, I could try to collect a list of articles and books that records the Mexican-American/Asian American dual histories! My own Mexican family quite happily detailed for me some of the experiences they had in our home town. Our communities joined together and helped each other in the face of discrimination — people depended on each other for citizenship, for business, and for protection. -- source link
#neat#for reference#mexican-american#south asian