Researching her great- grandmother, I learned that Bahadur was very determined to write about her elder. Her great grandmother as well as many other asians and asian women had to live brutal inhumane lives, being treated poorly by racist, sexist, misogynistic, toxic men. Who sexually, psychically, and verbally abused the native people. They were condescending to them, the white man who believed they were superior just because the come from a higher class. Communist, Dictator, Socialists who berated Indian woman. They Asians back in the day were still hardworker and lived their lives on farms, even in poverty. I think the author really wants to show the world how strong her great grandmother and others were. If i were to archive my own family history, i would use all data from my dna tests, family tree and knowledge from everyone on both sides of my family
The person I watched was Interviewed was Kristi Yamaguchi a third generation Japanese American figure skater, who’s father was a dentist and her mother was a medical secretary. Her grandparents and and great grandparents are immigrants from the Kansai region and Kyushu island. Her grandparents were force into a interment camp during World War II. I was surprised during the war that Japanese people were treated that way
Important points here about gender. What does the author say about the men who created the official records? What is their role in the documentation of the lives of migrant women like her great grandmother? What systems were they part of and responsible to keep up? This will help us to understand what led to the imbalance of power that she writes about.