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A Louisiana Family Discovers Their South Asian Roots

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South Asians began arriving in significant numbers during the late 1800s. Most were men who settled in communities of color and faced segregation and laws against intermarriage with whites. Many formed multiracial families like Moksad Ali, a Bengali Muslim trader, who married an African American woman, Ella Blackman. Together they navigated race in an era of anti-Asian exclusion and Jim Crow.

Major funding for ASIAN AMERICANS is provided by Wallace H. Coulter Foundation; Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB); Public Broadcasting Service (PBS); Ford Foundation/Just Films; National Endowment for the Humanities; The Freeman Foundation; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Kay Family Foundation; Long Family Foundation; Spring Wang and California Humanities.
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At the turn of the new millennium, the U.S becomes more diverse, yet more divided.
During a time of war, a young generation fights for equality and claim a new identity.
Asian Americans fight for equality and expand the definition of Asian American.
An American-born generation straddles their country of birth and their parents’ homelands.
In an era of exclusion and U.S. empire, new immigrants arrive and adapt to life in America
Chinese immigrants who built the railroad were erased from history, but not forgotten.
For Satsuki Ina, the question of loyalty began when she was born behind barbed wire.
For Korean Americans like Susan Ahn, WWII was a fight to defend both the U.S. and Korea.
Mike Nakayama was an American GI, but he was still seen as the enemy.
Asian American entrepreneurs like Jerry Yang helped build Silicon Valley into a powerhouse