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In Search of Bengali Harlem | Growing Up Bengali American
Clip: Season 12 Episode 5 | 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Alaudin Ullah opens up about growing up in Harlem as a Bengali American kid.
Alaudin Ullah talks about his childhood experience as both Bengali and American in Harlem, New York. The stand-up comedian and playwright shares how he and his family were viewed and the affect it had on him throughout his early years in public school.
Funding for America ReFramed provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Wyncote Foundation and Reva and David Logan Foundation.
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In Search of Bengali Harlem | Growing Up Bengali American
Clip: Season 12 Episode 5 | 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Alaudin Ullah talks about his childhood experience as both Bengali and American in Harlem, New York. The stand-up comedian and playwright shares how he and his family were viewed and the affect it had on him throughout his early years in public school.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipAlaudin Ullah: You know, growing I was Bangladeshi.
I was Muslim.
I was getting bullied.
My mom, like, in kindergarten and first grade, she would come with a sari.
She had a strong accent, and all the kids were like, "Yo, your mom talks funny.
What's that she's wearing?
Why is she wearing the curtain?"
And I'd say, "No, that's a sari.
(gentle music) I literally was like, that kid in the corner who had no friends.
But I also have great memories because the second week of kinde this skinny Black kid who lived across the street from me in Carver, he walked up to me and just said "Hey, do you wanna be Robin?
I'll be Batman."
And I'll never forget that for the rest of my life because Chris was the only friend that I had.
So Chris would call me on the ro and he was like, "Yo, you got the Incredible Hulk?"
And so I put it in a bag, and I drop it 15 flights - Wow.
- from up there.
That's kitchen, living room, my bedroom and my brother's bedr and my parents' bedroom at the e
In Search of Bengali Harlem | A Father's Past
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What do you know about the person you know as your father? Alaudin Ullah was surprised to find out. (55s)
In Search of Bengali Harlem | An Identity in Hip Hop
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Alaudin Ullah talks about his love for hip hop and rejecting his roots when he was growing up. (1m 34s)
In Search of Bengali Harlem | Preview
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A Harlem playwright unearths the extraordinary pasts of his Bangladeshi immigrant parents. (30s)
In Search of Bengali Harlem | Trailer
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A Harlem playwright unearths the extraordinary pasts of his Bangladeshi immigrant parents. (1m 6s)
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipFunding for America ReFramed provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Wyncote Foundation and Reva and David Logan Foundation.