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Establishing Pure Christian Blood- Limpieza de Sangre 

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Establishing Pure Christian Blood- Limpieza de Sangre 

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Eliza's first ancestors come to the U.S.

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Urgyen's ancestors are large landowners, feudal landlords to several villages

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Eliza's ancestor works on transcontinental railroad, builds wealth by exploiting chinese workers

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Nora's ancestors flee Northern Ireland under thread of persecution from British Rule . Able to immigrate to US legally and without red tape 

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Nora's ancestors flee Northern Ireland under thread of persecution from British Rule . Able to immigrate to US legally and without red tape 

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1898- Spanish American War- US Annexes Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, Cuba 

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1898- Spanish American War- US Annexes Philippines, Guam, Hawaii, Cuba 

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US severs political relationships with the Ottoman Empire after declaring war on Germany, Christian (/passing) refugees are granted admission into the US (CP)

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1921 Destruction of Black Wall St. in Tulsa 

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1921 Destruction of Black Wall St. in Tulsa 

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Urgyen's Great Great grandfather studies architecture in Britain, comes back and builds huge projects for the British colonial government

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This act’s quota system was in place for 40+ years, and it seriously reduced the number of immigrants not from NW Europe to the United States (CP)

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1930s- redlining, marking "riskier"neighborhoods, making it hard to get mortgages for Black families 

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1930s- redlining, marking "riskier"neighborhoods, making it hard to get mortgages for Black families 

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Nora's great grandmother gets a law degree from a segregated institution 

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Nora's great grandmother gets a law degree from a segregated institution 

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Urgyen's ancestors are involved in making uniforms and other supplies for British government + army fighting WW2

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Noura AA’s father, Karl, is born in philadelphia to a black father and mixed race mother His father was a veteran. He was denied entry to medical school and instead became a successful funeral parlor owner, owning three funeral homes in the philadelphia area

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Nora's grandfather benefits from GI bill, ascends to middle class

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Nora's grandfather benefits from GI bill, ascends to middle class

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Noura AA’s mother, Sarah is born in 1956 in Cairo Egypt. Sarah’s mother Martha ( Irish American share cropper from Georgia) and her father Saleh (from an established merchant family in Saudi Arabia) had met as students at Berkeley a few years earlier.

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1956 - (Adria) My maternal grandmother travels from China to Macau with my mother - this starts the process of her trying to get each family member out of China over the next several years as the rise of the Communist Party threatened their safety 

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1956 - (Adria) My maternal grandmother travels from China to Macau with my mother - this starts the process of her trying to get each family member out of China over the next several years as the rise of the Communist Party threatened their safety 

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Kira's great grandfather buys a piece of commercial real estate in lower Manhattan, sells it a few years later to larger and more established developers

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Urgyen's great grandfather sells a portion of the families immense land holdings and uses the money as startup capital for an Indian subsidiary of German industrial manufacturer Either Motors

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Urgyens paternal grandfather goes to MIT, comes back to India and marries grandmother, starts working for her father at Eicher, running factories

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Noura AA: I’m not sure of the details but sometime in the 60s and 70s Saleh’s business begins taking off. He eventually makes a fortune selling heavy machinery to oil companies in Saudi and running construction businesses within Saudi.

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Nora's great grandmother invests savings from professional job in stock market, it grows steadily for 70 years 

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Nora's great grandmother invests savings from professional job in stock market, it grows steadily for 70 years 

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Eliza's dad gets law degree

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Kira's paternal grandfather attends Harvard and graduates second in his class, is able to take a risk to take a lower paying job rather than go to medical school (because of his upper middle class status! and Whiteness!)

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1970 (Adria) My dad moved to the US as a college student in New York 

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1970 (Adria) My dad moved to the US as a college student in New York 

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My dad is in the first generation of his family to graduate from HS, goes on to get a medical degree and start generating wealth as a physician + investing in stocks

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Noura AA: relations between Saudi and Egypt sour making it difficult for Saleh to visit his wife and children in Egypt. He forcibly moves everyone to Lebanon which causes family disjunction for generations ~ another element that leads to the shrouding of my family wealth

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Eliza's mom gets law degree

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Ronald Regan de-regulates banks and businesses 

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Ronald Regan de-regulates banks and businesses 

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1980ish Adria's dad gets his PhD from CalTech

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1980ish Adria's dad gets his PhD from CalTech

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1981ish Adria's dad finds that he has limited opportunity at his initial job out of graduate school (at a defense contractor) because of his connections to family back in Asia, decides to pursue a different career 

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1981ish Adria's dad finds that he has limited opportunity at his initial job out of graduate school (at a defense contractor) because of his connections to family back in Asia, decides to pursue a different career 

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1984ish Adria's dad is able to leverage his position as a western-educated Chinese professional to secure a promotion to management-level roles at his company, opening up/running branches in Asia; family moves back to Hong Kong 

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1984ish Adria's dad is able to leverage his position as a western-educated Chinese professional to secure a promotion to management-level roles at his company, opening up/running branches in Asia; family moves back to Hong Kong 

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Kira: my maternal great grandmother passes away and gives my mom unrestricted access to her trust, suddenly inheriting millions of dollars

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1990s tough on crime policies under Clinton  and welfare reform 

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1990s tough on crime policies under Clinton  and welfare reform 

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1992 Adria's family moves back to the United States for dad to pursue an upper-management position at a tech company in silicon valley

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1992 Adria's family moves back to the United States for dad to pursue an upper-management position at a tech company in silicon valley

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1990's Libéralisation of Indian Economy 

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1990's Libéralisation of Indian Economy 

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Urgyen; Neoliberal reforms transform the Indian market, Eicher becomes a major player in industrial machinery manufacturing landscape

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2001ish Adria's dad is the CEO of a tech startup & sells company; makes a LOT of money in the initial dot com boom; decides to retire early 

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2001ish Adria's dad is the CEO of a tech startup & sells company; makes a LOT of money in the initial dot com boom; decides to retire early 

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2007 Adria's dad decides to un-retire, is hired as the CEO of another tech startup 

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2007 Adria's dad decides to un-retire, is hired as the CEO of another tech startup 

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Kira's maternal side sells a large piece of real estate to the folks who later developed the Hudson Yards in NYC

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Kira's dad gets laid off and quickly gets a new job that triples his income

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Urgyen's families holdings (both in Eicher and in the market in general) dip and then balloon through the pandemic.

Eicher's 2020 revenue is $1.5 billion. Extended family owns 49% stake, immediate family has a small percentage of a percentage stake.

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Some folks from SWANA/MENA communities are still advocating for there to be another racial and/or ethnic category on the US census (currently counted as "white") in order to more specifically allocate $ and other resources (CP)

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Stock market is very profitable despite global pandemic