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 […]
Make Your Home Among Strangers follows the convoluted story of first-generation college student Lizet Ramirez. The book also follows the story of […]
Watching the first hour and 50 minutes of the 1986 hearing on Japanese redress and HR 442 effectively supplemented what we learned […]
Blue Collar and Buddha definitely shocked me because of the vitriol and hatred towards refugees and immigrants, but it was also shocking […]
I grew up in a secular, interfaith, non-religious household in which I celebrated Hanukkah, Christmas, Passover, Easter, Purim, Halloween, Rosh Hashanah, and […]
To start, this has been one of my favorite readings so far. For some reason, I thought I wouldn’t like (probably because […]
Mae M. Ngai in “Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law,” argues that immigration legislation based on nation-states and race was “key […]
Most of our readings so far have been primary sources – diaries or letters. The Island reading was still a primary source, […]
Although Bread Givers had somewhat of a slow start, there were many moments within Yezierska’s book that I found myself relating to. […]
The Weitz and Still-Krumme letters are the letters of German immigrants, written back home, and can be compared and contrasted in interesting […]
Out of the three readings from this week, Nation of Migrants, Historians of Migration by Adam Goodman was by far the one […]