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November 19, 2020Uncategorized

Week 13: DNA Testing Reading

The article discusses how DNA testing in the last few years has become more popular as tests become cheaper and more accurate.  […]

November 5, 2020Uncategorized

Redress to Japanese Americans Week 11

In Robert Matsui’s testimony he discusses what it was like being a child during internment and how he was considered an enemy […]

October 29, 2020Uncategorized

Week Ten: Buddha and Blue Collar

Blue Collar and Buddha was a documentary about the influx of Laotian and other Asian immigrants due to the Vietnam War and […]

October 23, 2020Uncategorized

Week 9: Gentleman’s Agreement

A Gentleman’s Agreement took place in 1947 and portrayed the life of Phillip Green, a reporter living in New York with his […]

October 15, 2020Uncategorized

Havey Reading

Havey Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp, follows Lily Yuriko Nkai Havey’s life in the Japanese internment camps (Santa Anita and Amache).  […]

October 2, 2020Uncategorized

Ngai Reading

In The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law, Ngai discusses how through the Immigration Act of 1924 America was able to […]

September 23, 2020Uncategorized

Lai Reading

Island, is a collection of poems that were written by Chinese immigrants kept on Angel Island because they were considered to be […]

September 17, 2020Uncategorized

Yezierska

In the book Bread Givers portrays the life of Sara Smolinsky, a Jewish immigrant who migrated from Poland with her parents and […]

September 8, 2020Uncategorized

Weitz and Stille/ Krumme

In Martin Weitz’s letters he discusses his journey to America and how expensive it is to travel to the United States.  In […]

September 3, 2020Uncategorized

Harrower and Bluett

In “Some Memoirs of the Life of Job…”, Thomas Bluett writes on the life of a wrongfully enslaved man from the kingdom […]

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