Immigration/Migration Experiences Resources
Videos
...and the earth did not swallow him, directed by Paul Espinosa, 1996. A family of migrant workers, their hard times, and the coming of age of their son. From the novel by Tomas Rivera. Benaat, Chicago, (Daughters of Chicago),1996. Growing up Arab and female in Chicago.
Daughters of the Dust, directed by Julie Dash, 1991.
The Dupes, 1972. Three Palestinian refugees hidden in a tank truck try to cross the Kuwaiti border. From the novella, Men in the Sun, by Ghassan Kanafani. In Arabic, with English subtitles.
El Norte, directed by Gregory Nava, USA, 1983. A brother and sister, both teenagers flee their village in Guatemala after it is destroyed by the army. They make their way to El Norte (United States) where, with difficulty, they find work and try to create new lives for themselves. In Spanish, with English subtitles.
Hester Street, directed by Joan Micklin Silver, 1975. Life on the Lower East Side of New York.
Maricela, produced by Richard D. Soto. Mother and daughter flee to the U.S. from El Salvador.
My Family, directed by Gregory Nava, 1997. Story of three generations of the Sanchez family.
Nueba Yol, 1995, written and directed by Angel Muniz, the film (a hit in the Dominican Republic) follows the adventures of a good natured man (played by Balbuena, one of the most popular actors on Dominican tv) who gives Nueba Yol (New York) a try, but goes back to the island in the end. Many real issues facing immigrants are part of the film. In Spanish, with English subtitles.
Nueba Yol, Part 3: Bajo la nueva ley (Under the New Law), the sequel to Nueba Yol (Angel Muniz, the director, skipped Part 2, because he doesn’t think sequels are any good) follows the further adventures of Balbuena and his humorous struggles with American culture. In English, with Spanish subtitles.
One-way Ticket (Un Pasaje de Ida), 1988, directed by Agliberto Melendez, Dominican Republic. A powerful story about a group of men attempting to leave the Dominican Republic illegally. In Spanish, with English subtitles.
The River Niger, directed by Krishna Shah, 1976.
Roots, directed by David Greene, 1977.
Sankofa, directed by Haile Gerima, 1993.
Shadrach, directed by Susanne Styron, 1998.
Smoke Signals, directed by Sherman Alexie, 1998. Contemporary life on the reservation.
The Two Worlds of Angelita, (Los dos mundos de Angelita), Puerto Rico, 1982. The film follows a Puerto Rican family from the island to New York, and shows the difficulties they face. Told from the point of view of Angelita, an observant 9-year-old girl. In Spanish, with English subtitles.
Great Depression
Grapes of Wrath, 1940, directed by John Ford, tells the story of the Joad family, who move from the dust bowl to California during the Great Depression.
Riding the Rails, Michael Uys and Lexy Lovell, filmmakers, 1997, created a documentary using archival footage and interviews with surviving “road kids” themselves, about some of the four million Americans who traveled around the country in boxcars during the Great Depression.
Books
Alexie, Sherman, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, 1993
Alvarez, Julia, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Penguin, 1991
Alvarez, Julia, Something to Declare, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1998
Ambert, Alba, A Perfect Silence, 1995.
Antush, John, ed., Recent Puerto Rican Theater: Five Plays from New York, 1990
Asante, Molefi K., The African-American Atlas: Black History and Culture--An Illustrated Reference, 1998
Atkin, S. Beth, Voices from the fields, 1993
Augenbaum, Harold, ed., The Latino Reader, from 1542 to the present, 1997
Berlin, Ira, Remembering Slavery: African Amricans Talk about their personal experiences of slavery and emanciation, book and audiotapes
Bernardo, Anilu, Fitting in
Bernardo, Anilu, Loves me, loves me not, 1998
Bode, Janet, New Kids on the Block: Oral Histories of Immigrant Teens, 1989
Butler, Octavia, Kindred, Beacon Press, 1979
Carlson, Lori M., Cool Salsa, 1994
Clinton, Catherine, I, too sind America: In their own words: Three centuries of African American Poetry, 1998
Cao, Lan, Monkey Bridge, 1997
Carlson, Lori M, ed.,American Eyes: new Asian-American short stories for young adults, 1994
Chandra, G.S. Sharat, Sari of the Gods, 1998
Coan, Peter Morton, Ellis Island Interviews in their own words, 1997
Cofer, Judith Ortiz, Reaching for the Mainland & Selected New Poems, 1995
Danticat, Edwidge, The Farming of Bones, 1998
Danticat, Edwidge, Krik? Krak?, 1996
Dash, Julie, Daughters of the Dust, 1997
De Jesus, Joy L., ed., Growing up Puerto Rican, 1997
de la Garza, Beatriz, Pillars of gold and silver, 1997
Diaz, Junot, Drown, Riverhead Books, 1996
Ferré, Rosario, Eccentric Neighborhoods, Penguin, 1998
Fishkin, Barbara, Muddy Cup: A Dominican Family Comes of Age in a New America 1997
Fong-Torres, Ben, The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese-American, from Number two son to Rock ‘N’ Roll, 1995
Galarzo, Ernesto, Barrio Boy, 1971
Gallo, Donald R., Join in: multliethnic short stories by outstanding writers for young adults, 1993
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., The Classic Slave Narratives, Penguin, 1987
Gonzalez, Ray, ed. Mirrors Beneath the Earth: short fiction by Chicano writers, Ý1992
DeJesus, Joy L., ed, Growing up Puerto Rican, 1997
Hernandez, Jo Ann, White bread competition, 1997
Hoobler, Dorothy and Thomas, The American Family Albums, 10 vol. set, 1998
Houston, Wakatsuki Jeanne, Farewell to Manzanar, 1974
Hurmance, Belinda, ed.c, My Folks Don’t Want me to Talk about Slavery, 1998
Johnston, Charles, Africans in America, America’s Journey through Slavery, book and videos, 1998
Karlin, Wayne, ed., The Other Side of Heaven: Post-Wr Fiction by Vietnamese & American Writers, 1995
Kazin, Aflred, A Walker in the City, Harcourt, Brace, 1951
Kincaid, Jamaica, My Brother, Farrar, Straus, 1997
Lopez, Steve, Third and Indiana, Penguin, 1994
Mah, Adeline Yen, Falling Leaves, Broadway Books, 199
Major, Clarence, ed.,The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry, 1996
Manzano, Juan Francisco, Autobioigraphy of a Slave, 1996
Martinez, Floyd, Spirits of the high mesa, 1997
McCourt, Frank, Angela’s Ashes, Scribner, 1996
Meltzer, Milton, Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?, 1991
Meltzer, Milton, The Black Americans: A History in Their Own Words, 1984
Mohr, Nicholasa, A Matter of Pride and Other Stories, 1997
Morales, Aurora Levins, Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriqueñas, 1998
Mosny, Nancy Young, Pieces of Gold, 1999
Mukherjee, Bharati, Jasmine, 1989
Mukherjee, Bharati, The Middleman and Other Stories, 1988
Namioka, Lensey, April and the Dragon Lady, 1994
Olmos, Margarite Fernandez, ed., Remaking a Lost Harmony: Stories from the Hispanic Caribbean, 1995
Porter, Connie, Imani All Mine, 1999
Rivera, Tomas, ...and the earth did not devour him, 1992
Romero, Sophia, Always Hiding, 1998
Sadownick, Douglas, Sacred Lips of the Bronx, 1994
Sanchez, Sonia, Wounded inthe House of a Friend, 1995
Santiago, Esmeralda, almost a woman, Perseus Books, 1998
Santiago, Esmeralda, When I was Puerto Rican, 1993
Scott, Joanna C., Indochina’s Refugees: Oral Histories from Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, 1989
Sone, Monica, Nisei Daughter, 1979
Stave, Bruce M., From the Old Country, 1994
Thurman, Wallace, Infants of Spring, 1999
Torres-Saillant, Silvio, The Dominican Americans, 1998
Uchida, Yoshiko, Picture bride, 1987
Veciana-Suarez, Ana, The Chin Kiss King, 1997
Wartski, Maureen Crane, A Boat toNowhere, 1981
Williams-Garcia, Rita, Fast Talk on a Slow Track, Penguin, 1991 (2 copies)
Wilson, Harriet E., Our Nig; or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, Vintage, 1983
Woodson, Jacqueline, Autobiography of a Family Photo, Penguin, 1996
Wright, Richard, Black Boy, HarperCollins, 1944
Wright, Richard, Native Son, HarperCollins, 1944
Wright, Richard, Rite of Passage, HarperCollins, 1978.
Yep, Laurence, American Dragons: Twenty-five Asian American Voices, 1993
Classroom Copies:
McBride, James, The Color of Water, Riverhead Books, 1996
A sampling of other books in the Library
American Immigrant Cultures: Builders of a nation (reference--two volumes)
Armor, James, Manazar (Photographs by Ansel Adams), 1988
Baca, Jimmy Santiago, Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet in the Barrio, 1992
Bender, David, Illegal Immiagration
Benitez, Sandra, Bitter Grounds, 1997
Bernardo, Anilu, Jumpintg Off to Freedom, 1996
Braided Lives: an Anthology of Multicultural American Writing
Brown, Wesley, Imagining America: Stories from the Promised Land, 1991
Comer, James P., Magggie’s American Dream, 1988
Cumpian, Carlos, Poems about Latino Americans, 1994
Feelings, Tom, The Middle Passage, 1995
Galarza, Ernesto, Barrio Boy, 1971
Gonzelez, Ray, ed., Mirrors Beneath the Earth: Short Fiction by Chicano Writers, 1992
Martinez, Rubén, The Other Side, 1992
Myers, Walter Dean, THe Glory Field, 1994
Ruiz de Burton, Maria Ampara, Who Would Have Thought it?, 1995
Steptoe, Michele, ed., African-American Voices, 1995
Turner, Elizabeth Hutton, Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series, 1993
Williams-Garcia, Rita, Like Sisters on the Homefront, 1995
Online
America from the Great Depression to World War II, Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
Famous documentary photographs showing the effects of the Great Depression.
American Culture in the 1930’s http://www.let.ruu.nl/ams/xroads/1930proj.htm
A very rich source of information and links concerning the Great Depression.Analyzing Images lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/activity/port/html/diskip4.html
A useful, simple method for analyzing visual material.
Center for Migration Studies http://www.cmsny.org/index.htm
An excellent resource for information about migration and immigration.
Folklife and Fieldwork: A Layman’s Introduction to Field Techniques.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/folklife/fieldwk.html#afc
Excellent information on conducting oral history from the American Folklife Center.
New Deal Network http://newdeal.feri.org/
Documents, photographs, and information about the United States during the administration of President Franklin Roosevelt.
The Great Depression and the New Deal : The Federal Writers Projecthttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/intro01.html
Information about the Federal Writers Project during the Depression and photographs of the era. Links to oral history interviews.
Links to Oral History Organizations http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/oral/offsite.html
Excellent list of oral history resources.
Sample Lessons Using Library of Congess Online Resources
A good starting place for background information and activities. Particularly useful are
The Historian’s Sources (linked from Sample Lessons) and Framework for Using Primary Sources with Students. http://lcweb2.loc.gov.8081/ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/fw.html##Also useful is The Use of Primary Sources.
http://www.adultlearn.com/primary-sources.htmlThe One-Minute Guide to Conducting an Oral History. http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/1minute.html##
A good checklist for beginning oral historians.
Other Migration-related Links http://128.120.36.171/Migration-Links.html##
Listing of links to excellent resources on migration and immigration.
Photo Analysis Guide http://www.columbus.k12.oh.us/ndlproject/photo.htm##
A method for analyzing photographs (or other images) for information and meaning. Has a photo that can be used in immigration/migration studies.
Tips for Interviewers. http://library.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO/rohotips.html##
Helpful pointers to keep in mind when working in the field.
Simon, Julian L., Immigration: The Demographic & Economic Facts. December, 11, 1995. http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/pr-imintro.html
Thomas http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas2.html
Use this search engine to find legislation on immigration, for instance. (Search by Word/Phrase.)
Words and Deeds in American History http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/corhome.html
Selected documents from the Library of Congress’s Manuscript Division. Use the Chronological List to find papers from the 1930’s.
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