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

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Quraishi, Uzma [Author]

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TextSeries: Publication details: Chapel Hill : Published in association with The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, by the University of North Carolina Press, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781469655215

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JV7100 .R434 2020

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Contents:

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.

Subject: "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"--

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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

"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"--

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