Reflecting on “Selling the East in the American South” Vivek Bald’s “Selling the East in the American South” focuses on Bengali Muslims and their experience immigrating to the United States. The overwhelming sentiment is that they, and other Asians and people from the Middle East, have been removed from the narrative of studies despite obvious involvement. First, Bald explains that the Punjabi arrived pre-Revolution and moved west to avoid taxation, the British casting them out of the colonies,
loyalty and determination. To those with ethnicities often found outside of America, defining the American identity can be challenging. For example, the author of Growing Up Asian in America, Kesaya E. Noda, was born and grew up here in America, and also experienced a japanese culture through her grandparents who happened to be japaneses immigrants. In Noda’s essay, when describing the struggles of growing up racially asian, she
Guarding the Golden Door Essay Immigration has always been an issue in the United States for many years. Some people believe that everyone should have the right to move to the United States, but do not think of all the consequences if immigration laws were not put into act. It is vital to have these laws put into place because it creates public safety and health, jobs, and national security. In the book, Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882 by Daniel Rogers