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Author Archives: tmnissan
How A Typo Circumvented Transimmigration
There is one Holocaust sadness that strikes me as unusually sad. Part of the reason is that it concerns my own family, but part of it is that ever-so-human need to dwell on just how avoidable it really was. In … Continue reading
Posted in April 30
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The Racism Question
Rieder’s Canarsie neighborhod is one of dramatic racial tensions between the white and black communities, although of course there is parsing of the white community to specify Italians and Jewish groups. The white, original community felt very hostile towards the … Continue reading
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West Indians and Asian Indians (Crowder and Lessinger)
As we’ve discussed previously, a common problem in the growth (as defined in terms of capital prosperity) of immigrant or minority groups is the “slum trap.” To put it simply, many of the inherent issues of the slums (ie poor … Continue reading
Posted in April 9
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African-American Entrepreneurship
Both Chin and Lee discussed the necessary role of social networks comprised of one’s ethnic group (although race and religion are ill-defined, with “Korean” and “Jewish” considered mutually exclusive) in the creation and maintenance of employment and entrepreneurship. The issue … Continue reading
Posted in March 12
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Foner’s Change of the Immigrant Journey
My mother’s parents (and their families) immigrated to America in 1920, and my father came to this country over 45 years later. Their experiences differed profoundly, and paralleled closely the evolution of immigration as explicated by Nancy Foner in … Continue reading
Posted in February 26
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Prejudice in New Amsterdam/NYC
According to Professor Artinian in his class Politics of Revolution, the reason America’s racial tension remains so much more dramatically delineated than other countries is because it was crafted and instituted deliberately by the political and economic elite. Since it … Continue reading
Posted in February 19, Tzipora Nissan
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What Does it Mean to Be an American in NYC?
A critique of Lena Dunham’s popular HBO show, Girls, often focuses on the lack of diversity in the cast. To paraphrase one snarky reviewer, “A group of 20-something year olds living in NYC in 2012 and they don’t have one … Continue reading
Posted in February 12, Tzipora Nissan
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