Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans (Asian American History & Cultu)
By Karen Leonard.
Description
This is a study of the flexibility of ethnic identity. In the early twentieth century, men from India's Punjab province came to California to work on the land. The new immigrants had few chances to marry. There were very few marriageable Indian women, and miscegenation laws and racial prejudice limited their ability to find white Americans. Discovering an unexpected compatibility, Punjabis married women of Mexican descent and these alliances inspired others as the men introduced their bachelor friends to the sisters and friends of their wives. These biethnic families developed an ident...
ISBN(s)
1566392020, 9781566392020
