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Immigration & Migration
In 2015, fifty years after the Hart-Celler Immigration and Nationality Act launched an era of accelerated and greatly diversified immigration to the United States, have we achieved a better vantage point?
I am Japanese and white—and have often been self-conscious of being both simultaneously. In most of my college classes, I am the only student of color.
Many Voices, One Nation is an upcoming exhibition in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History’s newly renovated Second Floor West Wing.
The early years of the Folklife Festival prominently featured a series of programs showcasing “Old Ways in the New World,” which began in 1973 and continued through 1981.
The Irish began emigrating across the Atlantic in the eighteenth century, with numbers skyrocketing when Ireland’s Great Potato Famine struck.
Economic hardships, a shortage of affordable housing, religious persecution, the threat of disease, and even the effects of climate change may force people to move.
While developing the Perú: Pachamama program for the 2015 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, we circled around the question of “Peruvian-ness.”
In the September 2014 national Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation Forum, preservationists, historians, planners, and advocates of Asian and Pacific Islander culture in America gathered to address issues of cultural heritage.
James Rojas is busy. In 2014, he worked in over ten cities across seven states. In early February 2015, he had just finished leading a tour of East Los Angeles’s vernacular landscape.
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