John J. Bukowczyk, of Wayne State University, seemed overall impressed with Anna Pegler-Gordon’s book on photography and its involvement in immigration, “In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of […]
Month: October 2015
Reflecting on “History in a New Millennium”
Jeremy Popkin discusses many changes and controversies in History today. This ranges from the Irving v. Lipstadt Holocaust case of 2000 to various technologies, their merit and effects on history. […]
Reflecting on Goodman, Ramirez, & Lee
The three essays reviewed were “Nation of Migrants, Historians of Migration” by Adam Goodman, “Globalizing Migration Histories? Learning from Two Case Studies” by Bruno Ramirez, and “A Part and Apart: […]
Reflecting on “Selling the East in the American South”
Vivek Bald’s “Selling the East in the American South” focuses on Bengali Muslims and their experience immigrating to the United States. The overwhelming sentiment is that they, and other Asians […]
Reflecting on Race, Ethnicity, & Nationality
The three essays we read today were Kathleen Neils Conzen’s, et al. “The Invention of Ethnicity in the United States”, “Race, Nation, Culture in Recent Immigration Studies” by George J. […]