Punjabi Mexicans with Professor Karen Leonard
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English - October 05, 2020 15:44 - 49 minutes - 114 MB - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHistory Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Hi, my name is Sukhraj Singh and Welcome to the second episode of SikhArchive podcasts, a series of conversations with historians, authors and academics on topics related to their areas of expertise of Sikh history.
In this episode, we are joined by Professor Karen Leonard. She is a historian and anthropologist at the University of California. With a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin (1969) on the history of India Mexican Americans, South Asian Americans, and Muslim Americans.
This episode is about her book, Making Ethnic Choices, which was published in 1992 and is a thorough study about the Punjabi Mexican community, it’s formation and a fantastic oral history expose on the early Sikh pioneers of California.
There are a lot of theories that float around about this small but historically unique community and our conversation with Professor Karen Leonard really does clear up a lot of these misconceptions and we hope you enjoy listening to this episode.