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November 20, 2020Uncategorized

Week 13 – “She thought she was Irish…”

In this weeks reading, we hear the story Alice Plebuch and her family’s journey as they discover their family heritage. At the […]

November 13, 2020Uncategorized

Week 12 – Make Your Home Among Strangers

Straight from the get-go, a theme that I saw that persisted throughout the book was Lizet’s identity. She was constantly facing this […]

November 6, 2020Uncategorized

Week 11 – Redress to Japanese Americans

When beginning this video, I was surprised by a few things throughout. Generally, the idea of watching almost two hours of video […]

October 30, 2020Uncategorized

Week 10 – Blue Collar and Buddha

This documentary follows the culture, traditions, and struggle of Laotian and other Asian immigrants who immigrate to the U.S. and ended up […]

October 23, 2020November 6, 2020Uncategorized

Week 9 – Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)

The movie, Gentleman’s Agreement, was a film released in 1947 that followed the life of Philip Green. Green, a journalist, is based […]

October 16, 2020Uncategorized

Week 8 – Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp

Throughout this book, it was sometimes easy to forget that this actually happened in our country less than 100 years ago. The […]

October 2, 2020November 6, 2020Uncategorized

Week 6 – The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law

In this reading the author talks about the different parts of the Immigration Act of 1924. Quotas were the first part of […]

September 25, 2020November 6, 2020Uncategorized

Week 5 – Island : Poetry of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island

Throughout this book of poetry, I appreciated that even though each poem is individual, they are grouped and flow as one, longer […]

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020Uncategorized

Week 4 – Bread Givers

This book is about a young girl named Sara Smolinsky who is a part of a Jewish family who live in the […]

September 9, 2020November 6, 2020Uncategorized

Week 3 – Stille, Krumme + Weitz

The reading about the Stille and Krumme family started by telling us where their family came from, their immigration path, as well […]

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