Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream by Pawan Dhingra

Life Behind the Lobby: Indian American Motel Owners and the American Dream

Pawan Dhingra

264 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction race sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Indian Americans own about half of all the motels in the United States. Even more remarkable, most of these motel owners come from the same region in India and--although they are not all related--seventy percent of them share the surname of Patel....

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