Bhatt, Amy Pradip.

Roots & reflections : South Asians in the Pacific Northwest / Roots and reflections Amy Bhatt and Nalini Iyer ; foreword by Deepa Banerjee. - Seattle : University of Washington Press in association with the South Asian Oral History Project and the University of Washington Libraries, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Situating Stories : An Introduction to South Asian Communities in the Pacific Northwest -- "Finding Traces of Our Existence Here" : Pre-World War Two South Asian Migrations -- Routes and Roots : Stories of Departure and Arrival -- Creating Professional Classes : Education and Training -- All in a Day's Work : Employment, Migration, and Identity -- Falling from the Tree : Family, Gender, and Generational Differences -- Seeds Take Root : Growing South Asian Communities in the Pacific Northwest -- Epilogue: Meditations on Methodologies -- Appendix I: Interviews in the South Asian Oral History Project -- Appendix II: Narrator Biographies.



9780295804552


South Asian Americans--Social conditions.--Northwest, Pacific
Immigrants--Social conditions.--Northwest, Pacific
South Asian Americans--Northwest, Pacific--Interviews.
Immigrants--Northwest, Pacific--Interviews.
Oral history--Northwest, Pacific.
Community life--Northwest, Pacific.


Electronic Books.

F855 / .R668 2013