Step close enough to Anusha Sekhar’s “Not So Fast Fashion” and you’ll notice pieces of sari fabric adorning the young woman depicted in the mixed media piece. Like in much of Sekhar’s artwork, the piece features upcycled materials and speaks to mass consumerism that impacts South Asian women and girls across the world. “Most of the clothing we buy in the United States, like the fast fashion, also gets made by children around that girl's age in other countries such as India, Bangladesh, China and Pakistan,” she said. Sekhar is one of more than a dozen artists from the South Asian diaspora with work in the Museum of Asian Texans’ exhibition “Untitled Homeland,” which is open for viewing until Nov. 15. The exhibition features photos, newspaper clippings, artifacts and visual art that aim to explore one question: What does it look like to carry the culture and tradition of your ancestors to a new place? Stephanie Drenka, co-founder of the Dallas Asian American Historical Society, which hosts the exhibition, said the South Asian diaspora is one of the fastest-growing communities in North Texas. The South Asian population in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington is about 332,600, according to the Pew Research Center's analysis of census data. That includes people with ancestry from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. “It's more important than ever that we uplift and humanize these stories for people to counteract the anti-immigrant sentiment that we're facing in the state and throughout the country,” Drenka said. Drenka said there’s a rich history of South Asian communities in the U.S. and North Texas that often gets overlooked. One reason is Asian Americans of East Asian descent are often the focus. “It wasn't really until after the 1965 Immigration Act that more immigrants from South Asia were able to come here. So in terms of the timeline of history, they're seen as relatively newer immigrants but they've had significant contributions,” she said.