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Asian Americans and ethnicity
Asian immigration to the South
Asian Indians
Asian international students in U.S. universities
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Brain drain
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Cold War and higher education
Cold War public diplomacy
Di-ethnicity
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History of immigration to Houston
Houston Oil Bust
Indian immigration to the U.S.
Model minority myth and Asian immigrants
Oral history interviews Asian Americans
Pakistani Americans
Pakistani immigration to the U.S.
Post-1965 immigration to the U.S.
Public diplomacy India
Residential segregation in Houston
South Asian Americans
South Asian immigrants in Houston
Suburbanization in the Sunbelt
Sugar Land desi community
University of Houston Asian international students
White flight in Houston
Product details
- ISBN 9781469655185
- Weight: 333g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 18 May 2020
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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. U.S. 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. By examining Indian and Pakistani immigration to a major city transitioning out of Jim Crow, Quraishi reframes our understanding of twentieth-century migration, the changing character of the South, and the tangled politics of race, class, and ethnicity in the United States.
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. By examining Indian and Pakistani immigration to a major city transitioning out of Jim Crow, Quraishi reframes our understanding of twentieth-century migration, the changing character of the South, and the tangled politics of race, class, and ethnicity in the United States.
Uzma Quraishi is assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University.
