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Issues of identity and belonging are inseparable from the experience of immigration. Stories of immigrants, past and present, illuminate the human lives behind the ever-shifting global landscape we inhabit today.

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Becoming American Study Guide

This guide to accompany the film Becoming American helps students investigate identity and belonging through the stories of generations of Chinese immigrants in the United States and their paths to "becoming American."

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Becoming American: The Chinese Experience

What does it mean to become American? In interviews with historians, descendants, and recent immigrants, Bill Moyers explores this question through the experience of the Chinese in America.

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Chicano!

The Mexican-American civil rights movement (1965-1975) is recorded in this four-part series. Pivotal events concerning land, labor, education, and political empowerment are examined.

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Crossing the BLVD: Strangers, Neighbors, Aliens in a New America

This collection of stories is a tribute to the people, most of them immigrants, who make Queens such a culturally rich community.

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Ellis Island

Immigrants of every background recall their extraordinary adventures, from the treacherous passage across the sea to the start of a new life in a new land.

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Enrique's Journey

A Honduran boy goes on an unforgettable quest looking for his mother, eleven years after she is forced to leave her starving family to find work in the United States.

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Exploring Civil Rights and Migration: 18-week Curriculum Outline

This outline provides an instructional pathway for educators to teach 18-week curriculum exploring questions of identity, membership and belonging, and the power of their individual and collective choices. Recommended for 7th and 8th-grade educators.

It is based on the following resources: 1) Unit: Choices in Little Rock, 2) Memoir: Warriors Don’t Cry, 3) Unit: My Part of the Story, and 4) Nonfiction Book: Enrique’s Journey.

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Farmingville

In Farmingville, New York, tensions rise in the community after an influx of Mexican immigrants move there for work, which ultimately results in vicious hate crimes.

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Forgotten Ellis Island

The Ellis Island hospital was at once welcoming and foreboding: immigrants nursed to health were allowed entry to America, but those deemed feeble of body or mind were deported.

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I Learn America

Over the course of one school year, five immigrant teenagers are followed. They share their stories and struggles from their lives before and after moving to the US.

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I Learn America Viewers' Guide

This guide to the documentary film I Learn America prompts educators, students, and school communities to reflect on the role of schools in welcoming newcomers to the United States.

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Identity and Belonging in a Changing Great Britain

This resource draws on memoirs, journalistic accounts, and interviews to shed light on contemporary debates in our society around national identity and integration.

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