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Roots In The Sand
1998 · Film · documentary · 57 min
Directed by Jayasri Hart
A multi-generational portrait of pioneering Punjabi-Mexican families who settled, a century ago, in Southern California's Imperial Valley. Through the use of found footage, archival and family photographs, personal and public documents, Jayasri Majumdar Hart tells the touching and inspirational story of a community that grew out of a struggle for economic survival in the face of prejudice.
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Around the turn of the century, PBS made a documentary about this immigrant group called "Roots in the Sand"
https://www.pbs.org/rootsinthesand/