This weeks reading was about DNA testing and the ways that it has changed how people view heritage and ethnicity. The article […]

Make Your Home Among Strangers is a novel by Jennine Capo Crucet about Lizet a Cuban-American struggling in her freshmen year of […]

C-SPAN Redress to Japanese-Americans is the public hearing of potential legislation to provide redress to Japanese-Americans forty years after their internment. The […]

Blue Collar and Buddha is a documentary about Rockford, Indiana where many South-East Asians settled in. The documentary is split into two […]

A Gentleman’s Agreement is a film from 1947 about Phillip Green a writer who is tasked with writing an article on anti-semitism […]

‘Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind A World War II Fence’ by Lily Yuriko Nakai Harvey is a […]

This week’s reading looked at a lot of concepts on race and how the United States tried to use it to prevent […]

This week’s readings were different from the usual texts we look at. Unlike journals, letters, or stories, Island: Poetry and History of […]

Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska is a book that explores the life of a Jewish family, the Smolinskys, and focuses on the […]

In the letters from Martin Weitz, we see the experience of a German immigrant in the United States and the difficulties of […]