Immigration & society
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Archaeology of Change Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: 2008.040
Abstract
This collection of interviews was started in 2008 and explore the diversity and depth of stories about the neighborhood's change and the force of gentrification as told through the communities residents, workers, and families. The interviewees reminisce about key landmarks in Chinatown from the Music Palace to the Phoenix Poultry Market to the former Jewish Daily Forward Building and how these locales have changed throughout the years. The collected personal histories explore how everyday...
Dates:
2008-01-01 - 2008-12-31
Fold Exhibition Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: 2018.034
Abstract
On June 6, 1993, the Golden Venture ran aground near Rockaway Beach, Queens, NY. The cargo ship passengers, nearly 300 migrants primarily from Fujian Province, China, were being smuggled into America by a Chinese crime syndicate. While the asylum-seekers waited for uncertain legal outcomes in York Country Prison, Pennsylvania, they began creating paper sculptures employing the traditional Chinese folk art of paper folding. Originally, these pieces were created as gifts for their lawyers and...
Dates:
2018