November 5, 2020Uncategorized Week 11 Blog post This week we learned about issues relating Japanese interment and watched a video on HR 442 pertaining to Japanese redress. A few […]
October 30, 2020Uncategorized Week 10 blog post Blue collar and Buddha deals with the immigration of South-East Asian refugees into an Illinois town and the struggles that they faced. […]
October 16, 2020Uncategorized Week 7 Readings Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp, follows Lily Yuriko’s life in the Japanese internment camps. During her time in the camp she writes […]
October 1, 2020Uncategorized Week 6 Readings This week’s readings covered immigration laws that favored immigration from Nordic countries over immigration from eastern Europe. We have seen on multiple […]
September 24, 2020Uncategorized Week 5 Readings Island is a series of poems written by Chinese immigrants who were detained while and held in a prison while at angel […]
September 17, 2020Uncategorized Week 4 Readings Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska follows the life of a young Jewish immigrant named Sara Smolinsky and her struggles with a new […]
September 9, 2020Uncategorized Week 3 Readings In the letters from Martin Weitz, we view the life of a German immigrant in the United States and the difficulties associated […]
September 4, 2020Uncategorized Ryan Armel Blog Post 2 These two readings both covered the topic of forced immigration in the topic of slavery as well as indentured servitude. The first […]