Guyana Stamps
Kokila Bahadur came as a nurse trainee at the Jersey City Medical Center in 1966, the year of Guyana's independence. The first in the Bahadur family to immigrate, Kokila Bahadur sponsored her husband, children and many dozens of other relatives through provisions of the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act, the immigration law that profoundly changed the demographics of the United States.
Handwritten letter from Mohaiyuddin Khan
This handwritten petition for a passport in 1921 provides a glimpse of Khan's transnational life and the circuits he traveled, from London to Calcutta to Brooklyn.
Sumi Kailasapathy Interview with Boston Lanka
In this interview, Sumi Kailasapathy explains how and why her campaign messaging for City Council Member of Ann Arbor draws from her experience living through the armed violence in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. She speaks on how these experiences are what drives her politics, particularly in advocating on behalf of historically marginalized communities.
Farewell Notes to Angela Nawang
The friends who wrote notes to Angela Nawang were largely representative of the school they attended and her friend circle. Almost all of them are either South Asian American or Chinese American. This is a collection of her South Asian friends remembering her as the girl who spoke Hindi and had a trove of Bollywood movie recommendations.