Vivek Bald reads from a new essay that uses a teenage encounter with police and the justice system to explore questions of immigrant acceptability, racialization, and the South Asians American embrace of model minority status.
Vivek Bald, “If I Could Reach the Border…”
Vivek Bald will read from a new essay that uses a teenage encounter with police and the justice system to explore questions of immigrant acceptability, racialization, and the South Asians American embrace of model minority status.
Thomas Allen Harris: “Collective Wisdom” Keynote
In conversation with MIT Professor Vivek Bald, critically-acclaimed filmmaker and artist Thomas Allen Harris will reveal his process, experiences, and unexpected outcomes working with communities in online and offline shared spaces and places. Livestream starting at 5pm.
Podcast: Vivek Bald, “Documenting South Asian America’s Interracial Past”
Vivek Bald, an Associate Professor in CMS/W and member of the MIT Open Documentary Lab, discusses his transmedia project documenting the lives of Bengalis who entered the United States at the height of the Asian Exclusion Era.
The Bengali Harlem/Lost Histories Project: Documenting South Asian America’s Interracial Past
Vivek Bald discusses his transmedia project documenting the lives of Bengali Muslim ship workers and silk peddlers who entered the United States at the height of the Asian Exclusion Era and quietly settled and intermarried within African American and Puerto Rican neighborhoods from Harlem to Tremé in New Orleans and Black Bottom, Detroit.
New Histories of the South Asian Diaspora
A reading and discussion with authors Gaiutra Bahadur and Vivek Bald.
In Medias Res, Spring 2013
In this issue of In Medias Res, we look at media and technology in the farm worker movement…and much more.
