The Bengali.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Kaul, Kavery, director.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shaik, Fatima, 1952---Travel--India.

Shaik, Fatima.

East Indian Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.

East Indian Americans.

African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (01:10:46)) : sound, color

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Good Docs, 2022.

Language Note:

Closed-captions in English.

Summary:

A stranger in the family sparks a boldly different story of East and West. The Bengali takes an African American woman from Louisiana on an unlikely quest to a part of India where no American has ever gone. There, she must cross deep divides of culture in a search for her grandfather's descendants, the land he claimed to own, and the truth behind the stories she grew up with. Raised on tales of his journey from India to the U.S., Fatima Shaik travels from America with India-born filmmaker Kavery Kaul, to understand her heritage. Her journey is tempered with hope, fear, and surprising encounters with the unfamiliar as she learns about her family's place in a broader narrative of migration and culture. With unique access to both countries, The Bengali reclaims the lost ties between South Asians and African Americans in the U.S. In the late nineteenth century, the newly arrived men from India married African American women. The men were Muslim; their wives were Christian. Their vibrant cultural tangle adds resonance to the value of oral history. This moving documentary examines diaspora and the universal human yearning to belong.

Participant:

Director, Kavery Kaul.

Notes:

Description based on XML content.

ISBN:

1-03-625011-3

9781036250119

OCLC:

1584443708

Publisher Number:

302373