Immigration
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May 26, 2020 |
Published by Cornell University Press in 2019 and awarded the 2019 American Association for Italian Studies Book Prize (20th and 21st Centuries), Stephanie Malia Hom’s Empire’s Mobius Strip: Hist...
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May 21, 2020 |
Glass I am floating inside a blinding white box, suspended in the sky. As I lean against the wide window overlooking the city, my forehead touches the ice-cold surface, and I pull ba...
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November 21, 2017 |
Seth Michelson / Courtesy of Washington & Lee University In October 2017 nonprofit press Settlement House released Dreaming America: Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention...
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October 4, 2017 |
Fatou Diome / Courtesy of frenchculture.org Fatou Diome, a Senegalese migrant to France, turns her hand to nonfiction in her 2017 pre-election polemic, Marianne porte plainte! Identité nationale:...
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February 6, 2017 |
Geoff Livingston, “America Is a Land of Immigrants,” Dulles International Airport, January 28, 2017 Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal used to say that he drew his worldview from a dry cleaner’s slip he cam...
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June 10, 2016 |
Muhammad Ali signing autographs for Volendam women. Wikimedia Commons News, Reviews, and Interviews NPR’s Juan Vidal writes about Muhammad Ali’s poetic side and his skill for linguistic thea...
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January 22, 2014 |
Photo by Anuska Sampedro/Flickr The United States prides itself upon being, as the clichéd phrase goes, “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” However, whenever the courageous refugees fle...
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November 21, 2012 |
Photo Flickr/NedraI “Thanks-giving,” said Mr. K., my seventh-grade English teacher. “Repeat after me: Thanksgiving.” “Ssshthanks give in,” I said, but the word tumbled and hissed, turning my mouth in...