Not Like My Grandparents? Yesterday’s Immigrants and Today’s in Historical Perspective

901d297726dfe5e4e5f35515909abb8c_1_.jpegAmericans generally believe that today's immigrants, who come primarily from Latin America and Asia, are far different than their own immigrant ancestors from Europe. But is that really the case? Using New York as a case study, Tyler Anbinder (GSAS '90), a professor of history at George Washington University, finds that there are many more similarities than one might imagine between previous generations of immigrants and those arriving in the United States in the twenty-first century.

Metro accessible: Virginia Square Station, Orange line

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Anbinder.pngTyler Anbinder is a specialist in nineteenth-century American politics and in the history of immigration and ethnicity in American life. His first book, Nativism and Slavery, analyzed the role of the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic Know Nothing party on the political crisis that led to the Civil War. His most recent book, Five Points, traced the history of nineteenth-century America's most infamous immigrant slum, focusing on tenement life, inter-ethnic relations, and ethnic politics. Professor Anbinder has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and held the Fulbright Thomas Jefferson Chair in American History at the University of Utrecht. He also served as a historical consultant to Martin Scorsese in the making of the film Gangs of New York. His current research includes an NEH-funded study of Irish immigrant savings habits, and a book-length study of immigrant life in New York City from the first Dutch settlers to the present.

6:15pm: Talk by Anbinder

followed by Q&A

WHEN
June 13, 2018 at 6:00pm - 8pm
WHERE

Arlington Central Library Auditorium

1015 N Quincy St
Arlington, VA 22201
United States
CONTACT

Kambiz Rahnavardy

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