1. The History that Bahadur is writing about is her great grandmother where she is Coolie Women, a woman that is running away or thrown out by husbands and being outcast. Leaving her county to work at a Caribbean sugar plantation. That Bahadur is showing how women are not represented and not knowing about there life. In the rich paper trail in India Office and Colonial Office records in London reports that allows Bahadur to rebuild the image of how women live. The perspective is from Bahadur, and this states ” I had to turn to alternative, unofficial sources. I looked for clues in visual traces and the oral tradition: folk songs, oral histories, photographs, and colonial-era postcards, even a traditional tattoo on the forearms of elderly Indo-Caribbean women”. There there was more information that is not known yet. That Bahadur used herself as a historical reflection of both as a former newspaper reporter and as a child immigrant and the place she was born in about gender base violence problem. If I were to construct my family ground I would ask my grandparents and would visit where they are born also look into history books.
2. That the author describe model minority as a individuals can overcome challenging circumstances less through solidarity with other groups and making its own decision. And for anti- model minority shows Asian American solidarity with other groups, which sheds light on the coalitions that formed in the fight for civil rights. That in the article it states ” In the early 20th century, merchant men from Bengal jumped ship in New York City and Baltimore, often settling down with African American, Puerto Rican and other women of color in Black neighborhoods of New Orleans, Detroit and Harlem”.
Great pull-quote, Andrew. The methods that Bahadur uses are what makes this study unique.– and also, as you mention, her own position as a journalist and a child of immigrants is what allows her to do this work in this specific way.
(#2 asks about an oral history — were you able to listen to one of the oral histories on the list?)
I forgot about it but im adding more on the DB1 for the oral history.
OK 🙂
The person I watched was Victor Lim, a fourth-generation Asian American who got raised in El Cerrito and his great grandfather is a gold miner where he married twice where the first woman was an Indian woman and the second is a Chinese woman. Oral history is very interesting because it talks about his great- grandfather and his grandfather how he was a very successful businessman where import and export items to the US. He was a wealthy guy. One thing that surprised me was that his grandpa trained pilots from China and at that time it was the starting of the war.