Our Stories
An Introduction to South Asian America
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Chapter 7: Civic Engagement

Explore this chapter:
• Blockade for Bangladesh
• Organizing for Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles
• Feminist Engagements
• Banglatown, USA
• South Asian Guest Workers
• Electoral Patterns and Dilemmas

Blockade for Bangladesh
By Hasan Ferdous
Page In the book For further exploration
240 "Blockade" Inset Read more about Arif Yousuf's documentary Blockade.
242 See the image in SAADA's First Days Project.
Organizing for Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles
By Hamid Khan
Page In the book For further exploration
247 Read more about the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition in Jenna McLaughlin's &334;L.A. Activists Want to Bring Surveillance Conversation Down to Earth" for The Intercept.
247 Further Discovery Discover more of Hamid Khan's and SAN's archival materials in SAADA's archival collections.
Feminist Engagements
By Soniya Munshi
Page In the book For further exploration
250 Discover more of Margarita Korol's work at urbanpopartist.com.
252 "A Quiet Persistance: Turning Point for Women and Families" Inset Discover more about Turning Point for Women and Families at tpny.org.
252 Further Discovery Discover more about Manavi at manavi.org.
Banglatown, USA
By Alisa Perkins
Page In the book For further exploration
257 Further Reading Read more about the Bangladeshi diaspora in:
Nazli Kibria, Muslims in Motion: Islam and National Identity in the Bangladeshi Diaspora.
257 Further Reading Read more about Banglatown in:
Alisa Perkins, "Muslim Sound, Public Space, and Citizenship Agendas in an American City," (Citizenship Studies, 2015).
257 Further Reading Read more about Banglatown in:
Alisa Perkins, "Negotiating Alliances: Muslims, Gay Rights and the Christian Right in a Polish American City," (Anthropology Today, 2010).
257 Further Reading Read more about diasporic Bangladeshi communities in:
Tasneem Siddiqui, "Institutionalizing Diaspora Linkage: The Emigrant Bangladeshis on UK and USA".
South Asian Guest Workers
By SaunJuhi Verma
Page In the book For further exploration
260 Read more of Saket Soni's work in:
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260 "National Guestworker Alliance & Saket Soni" Inset Discover more about the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice at nowcrj.org.
Electoral Patterns and Dilemmas
By Sangay Mishra
Page In the book For further exploration
263 Read the rest of Andrea Diaz's "Take a Knee Protests Go from the Sidelines to City Council Chambers" for CNN.
264 See the image and discover other records from SAAVY (South Asian American Voting Youth) in SAADA's archival collections.
265 "Hindus for Trump" Inset Read the rest of Rashmee Kumar's "Hindus for Trump: Behind the Uneasy Alliance with Rightwing U.S. Politics" for the Guardian.
266 Further Reading Read more about South Asian American political identity in:
Sangay Mishra, Desis Divided: The Political Lives of South Asian Americans.
266 Further Reading Read more about Asian American political identity in:
Janelle Wong, Karthick Ramakrishnan, Jane Junn, and Taeku Lee, Asian American Political Participation: Emerging Constituents and Their Political Identities.