The title,These Americans,comes from a phrase that my immigrant parents often said to refer to non-immigrant Americans. Often, the phrase was used as a way to contrast their Indian culture with the mainstream American culture, as in “I have gotten used to these Americans smiling all the ti...
Alone Like Meis a beautiful and heartfelt story about the power of friendship. Liling moves from her home in the mountains to a bustling Chinese city. Because she is a rural immigrant, Liling and her family are considered second class citizens. She can’t go to school, she’s lonely and...
Taiwanese parents who went to college in the U.S. raise their daughters and create an annual soybean picnic for Chicago’s Chinese American community. A heartwarming story about immigrant families adapting their culture in a new country.
What might not be well known is that during WWII, Canada also created concentration camps for its immigrant populations made up but not limited to those of Japanese descent. I had always found the two photographic portrayals of Japanese American Incarceration camps by Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lang...
Ezra Jack Keats was born Jacob Ezra Katz on March 11th, 1916 in Brooklyn. The third child to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents, Keats led far from an idyllic childhood. The family was very, very poor – leading the artistic child to begin his creative energy making art out of scraps of tra...
So, because so many of these poems do contain verifiably older language than we would expect if they had been composed when they were written down in the 1200s, modern scholarship accepts the Poetic Edda as essentially an authentic transmission of genuine pre-Christian stories about the Norse go...
Nancy Churninis the author of several picture book biographies, including South Asia Book Award winnerManjhi Moves a Mountainand Sydney Taylor NotableIrving Berlin, the Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing, both Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People. Visit Churnin at herwebsite. ...
She’s been living as an undocumented immigrant since she was eight and her parents moved the family over from Jamaica. Now her father’s DUI means they to leave New York. Tonight. Natasha repeatedly visits US Citizenship and Immigration Services, hoping for a reprieve so she can stay in ...
The Arabic Quiltis a compassionate and feel-good book for immigrant children who are bilingual and starting a new school. They want so badly to fit in with and be accepted by the other children, even though they may dress a little differently and bring an ethnic lunch from home. ...
Alone Like Meis a beautiful and heartfelt story about the power of friendship. Liling moves from her home in the mountains to a bustling Chinese city. Because she is a rural immigrant, Liling and her family are considered second class citizens. She can’t go to school, she’s lonely and...