Redefining the immigrant South : Indian and Pakistani immigration to Houston during the Cold War / Uzma Quraishi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quraishi, Uzma, author.

Series:

New directions in southern studies.

North Carolina scholarship online.

New directions in southern studies

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Asians--Texas--Houston.

South Asians.

Houston (Tex.)--Emigration and immigration.

Houston (Tex.).

India--Emigration and immigration.

India.

Pakistan--Emigration and immigration.

Pakistan.

University of Houston--History--20th century.

University of Houston.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

U.S. ideological linkages with Indians and Pakistanis, 1950s-mid-1960s

Getting acquainted with the university and the city, 1960s-early 1970s

The formation of the interethnic community, 1960s-1970s

Inhabiting the internationalizing city, 1970s

Riding up the oil boom, sliding down the oil bust, mid-1970s-1980s

Finding whiter and browner pastures in the ethnoburbs, 1990s-2000s.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

AAAM-History, 2022

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 5, 2021).

Previously issued in print: 2020.

ISBN:

979-88-908586-6-5

979-88-908586-7-2

1-4696-5521-7

OCLC:

1146545901