How South Asian Muslims and Mexican Americans United in the 1920s

Journalist Asma Khalid traces the life of Mir Dad, a South Asian Muslim immigrant who married into a Mexican American community in the 1920s Southwest.

An overlooked chapter of American history where two immigrant communities built families together.

Asma Khalid travels to Sacramento and Phoenix to piece together the story of a man named Mir Dad, a South Asian Muslim who arrived in the United States in 1917 and made a home in the American Southwest. Asma discovers th

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