Author: abhayvirsingh

Abhayvir Singh

Response 5 of 5

“Families for Freedom Against Deportation and Delegalization”

By Subash Kateel and Aarti Shahani

This piece presents a view long internalized by immigrants and to see it on print, is reassuring. While every sentence is dense and carries innate meaning, the following excerpt best summarizes the concept introduced. “Today, the United States cannot write race into the letter of law…But as migrants from Latin America, Asia, and Africa have replaced European flows, immigration status has been used as code for race” (258). Continue reading “Detention and Deportation”

Abhayvir Singh

Response 4 of 5

“Selling the American dream myth to black southerners: The Chicago defender and the great migration of 1915-1919”

By Alan D. Desantis

The Reconstruction era from 1863 to 1877 failed to bring significant change in the lives of African-Americans in the south. 1915 to 1919 marked the era when African-Americans abandoned the south and fled up north for a better life. Such significant was the resettlement that this period is known as the Great Migration. Continue reading “The Belated American Dream”

Abhayvir Singh

Reflection 3 of 5

“’Lost’ In The City, Spaces and Stories of South Asian New York, 1917-1965”

By Vivek Bald

Vivek Bald presents a unique narrative of the South Asian immigrant. In order to do this, he chooses an era, 1917-1965, that is not acknowledged in the larger picture of the South Asian immigrant experience. He starts with 1917 because that’s the earliest he discovered any legal, written record in regards to South Asians. This is the year of the Supreme court case the United States vs. Bhagat Singh Thind, which denied Bhagat Singh Thind citizenship because, although he classified as of Indo-Aryan origin, he was not white enough for US citizenship. Continue reading “Narratives Unnoticed”