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Worth More Than A Thousand Words, Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus

Faculty Scholarship

Sherally Munshi has written a thoughtful and moving article about the relationship among race, citizenship, immigration, and the visual imagery of assimilation and difference. In “You Will See My Family Became So American,” she tells the story of Dinshah Ghadiali, a Parsi Zoroastrian born and raised in India who immigrated to the United States in 1911, became a U.S. citizen in 1917, and prevailed over the federal government’s effort to strip him of that citizenship in 1932. Along with Ghadiali himself – proud American, soldier, erstwhile inventor, political activist, and all in all memorable character with a larger-than-life personality – …