Abstract

During the first half of the twentieth century, a steady flow of Indian Muslim men were jumping ship from British merchant marine vessels and settling in U.S. port cities like New Orleans and New York. These men intermarried within local African American and Puerto Rican communities. Their lives and those of their families illuminate an important arena of encounter between Muslim immigrants and U.S. communities of color as well as the everyday exchanges that occur in the overlap between multiple disporas.

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