Week Thirteen: “Who is She? A DNA Test Only Opens New Mysteries.”
The article entitled “Who is She? A DNA Test Only Opens New Mysteries.” tells the story of Alice Collins Plebuch’s genealogy and […]
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Week Twelve: “Make Your Home Among Strangers.”
Make Your Home Among Strangers by Jennine Capo Crucet, follows the story of Lizet, a Cuben American. She attends Rawlings, which is […]
Week Eleven: Redress to Japanese Americans.
The Japanese redress film, opens with the chairman, Mr.Glickman, explaining the proceedings to the court. He states that with the passing of […]
Week Ten: Blue Collar and Buddha.
The documentary starts off with a news watch report of a bombing at a Buddhist Laos temple in Rockford Country. This was […]
Week Nine: A Gentleman’s Agreement.
A Gentleman’s Agreement is a black and white, 1947 movie that follows the life of journalist Philip Schuyler Green, who is played […]
Week eight Reading: Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp.
Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp, by Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey, is a first-hand story of her and her family’s endurance in […]
Week Six Reading: Race in American Immigration.
The article The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law tells the process of the Immigration Act of 1924, and the issues […]
Week Five Reading: Island
Island: Poetry and the History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940, offers the reader a first-hand account of what Chinese immigrants […]
Week Four Reading: Bread Givers.
Bread Givers, by Anzia Yezierska, tells the story of Sara Smolinsky and her family. She grows up on the Lower East Side […]
Week Three Readings
The first reading entitled Stille and Krumme discusses a collection of letters from the Stille family. The Stille family was from the […]