Redefining the Immigrant South : Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War /

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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, cr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Quraishi, Uzma (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : Published in association with The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, by the University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
University of Houston.
University of Houston > History > 20th century.
South Asians.
Emigration and immigration.
History / United States / 20th Century.
History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American Studies.
Sud-Asiatiques > Texas > Houston.
South Asians > Texas > Houston.
Texas > Houston.
Pakistan.
India.
Pakistan > Emigration and immigration.
India > Emigration and immigration.
Houston (Tex.) > Emigration and immigration.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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