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November 13, 2020Uncategorized

Thoughts on Make Your Home Among Strangers

Make Your Home Among Strangers follows the convoluted story of first-generation college student Lizet Ramirez. The book also follows the story of […]

November 5, 2020Uncategorized

CSPAN Japanese Redress

Watching the first hour and 50 minutes of the 1986 hearing on Japanese redress and HR 442 effectively supplemented what we learned […]

October 29, 2020Uncategorized

Thoughts on Refugees, Capitalism, and War

Blue Collar and Buddha definitely shocked me because of the vitriol and hatred towards refugees and immigrants, but it was also shocking […]

October 22, 2020October 22, 2020Uncategorized

Some Personal Thoughts on A Gentleman’s Agreement

I grew up in a secular, interfaith, non-religious household in which I celebrated Hanukkah, Christmas, Passover, Easter, Purim, Halloween, Rosh Hashanah, and […]

October 16, 2020Uncategorized

Thoughts on Gasa Gasa Girl Goes To Camp

To start, this has been one of my favorite readings so far. For some reason, I thought I wouldn’t like (probably because […]

October 1, 2020Uncategorized

Mae Ngai: The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law

Mae M. Ngai in “Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law,” argues that immigration legislation based on nation-states and race was “key […]

September 24, 2020Uncategorized

Island: Second Edition

Most of our readings so far have been primary sources – diaries or letters. The Island reading was still a primary source, […]

September 18, 2020September 18, 2020Uncategorized

Relating to Bread Givers?

Although Bread Givers had somewhat of a slow start, there were many moments within Yezierska’s book that I found myself relating to. […]

September 9, 2020Uncategorized

Weitz and Still-Krumme Letters – Sarah Sklar

The Weitz and Still-Krumme letters are the letters of German immigrants, written back home, and can be compared and contrasted in interesting […]

August 26, 2020Uncategorized

The Immigrant Paradigm in K-12 Education

Out of the three readings from this week, Nation of Migrants, Historians of Migration by Adam Goodman was by far the one […]

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