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Migration

Art in the Lives of Immigrant Communities in the United States (Rutgers Series – The Public Life of the Arts) Prof. Paul DiMaggio (Editor), Prof. Patricia Fernandez-Kelly (Editor, Introduction), Prof. Gilberto Cardenas (Contributor), Prof. Yen Espiritu (Contributor), Prof. Amaney Jamal (Contributor), Prof. Sunaina Maira (Contributor), Prof. Douglas Massey (Contributor), Prof. Cecilia Menjivar (Contributor), Prof. Clifford Read More

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Fantastic Sea Voyages

Sailors, Whalers, Fantastic Sea Voyages: An Activity Guide to North American Sailing Life Children are fascinated with sailing ships, lighthouses, whaling, shipwrecks, and mutinies, and these 50-plus activities will provide them with a boatful of fun. This activity guide shows kids what life was like for the greenhands, old salts, and captains on the high Read More

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Coming to America

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, a sharecropper’s wife, left Mississippi for Milwaukee in 1937, after her cousin was falsely accused of stealing a white man’s turkeys and was almost beaten to death. In 1945, George Swanson Starling, a citrus Read More