The African-American Migration Experience
This Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Site focuses on the 13 defining migrations that formed and transformed African America.
http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm

Becoming an American: The Chinese Experience
The dramatic story of struggle and triumph, progress and setbacks, discrimination and assimilation, taken from personal stories.
http://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/index.html

Chicago, City of the Century: Decades of Immigrants
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/chicago/sfeature/sf_nations.html

Destination America
This resource-rich site includes compelling immigration stories, the history of immigration to the United States, a quiz, and resources.
http://www.pbs.org/destinationamerica/index.html

Immigration: Library of Congress
A presentation of the history of immigration, using primary sources of the Library of Congress.
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/immig/introduction.html

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
Selected historical materials from Harvard University’s collections document voluntary immigration to the United States. http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/immigration/

Immigrant Voices — Primary Sources
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/ethnic_am.cfm

Migration Policy Institute “Data Hub”
The latest facts, stats, and maps on international migration.
http://www.migrationinformation.org/datahub

The New Americans
Personal stories and cultural riches from the newest wave of immigrants to the United States.
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/newamericans/index.html

Peopling North America: Population Movements & Migration
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/migrations/Fhome.html

U.S. Historical Census Data Browser
From the University of Virginia Library, this census tool allows users to compare populations in states over different time periods.
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census

Online Readings

America’s Newcomers
http://mumford.albany.edu/census/NewComersReport/Americas%20Newcomers.pdf

Center for Immigration Studies. Immigrants in the United States, a backgrounder.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2007/back1007.pdf

The Foreign-Born Population of the U.S.
http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/p20-551.pdf

Immigration and America’s Black Population
http://www.prb.org/pdf07/62.4immigration.pdf

The Immigration Debate
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/1204/ijse/barone.htm

In Professor’s Model, Diversity = Productivity
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/science/08conv.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin

Lindsay, James M., and Audrey Singer. Changing Faces: Immigrants and Diversity in the Twenty-First Century.
http://brookings.edu/views/papers/lindsay/20030601.htm

One from Many: U.S. Immigration Patterns and Ethnic Composition
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0699/ijse/portrait.htm

Singer, Audrey. The Changing Face of America
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/1204/ijse/singer.htm

Spain, Daphne. The Debate in the United States over Immigration.
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itsv/0699/ijse/spain.htm

Filmography

Avalon (1990)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099073/
Director: Barry Levinson
Running time: 126 minutes
Synopsis: A Polish-Jewish family seeks a better future in the so-called promised land of the USA.

Crash (2005)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375679/
Director: Paul Haggis
Running time: 113 minutes
Synopsis: The lives of several inter-related characters from different ethnic groups and national origins collide and interweave during two days in Los Angeles.

Gangs of New York (2002)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217505/
Director: Martin Scorsese
Running time: 167 minutes
Synopsis: In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon seeks revenge on his father's killer in the notorious Five Points district of New York City, where nativist hatred of Irish immigrants has deadly consequences.

Godfather II (1974)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071562/
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Running time: 200 minutes
Synopsis: Robert De Niro delivers a masterful performance portraying the early career of Vito Corleone in Italy and New York during the first decades of the 20th century.

Joy Luck Club (1993)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107282/
Director: Wayne Wang
Running time: 139 minutes
Synopsis: Four Asian women and their American born daughters support each other, and reflect on the past, in contemporary San Francisco.

Mambo Kings (1992)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104802/
Director: Ame Glimcher
Running time: 104 minutes
Synopsis: Cesar and Nestor, a pair of musician brothers, leave Cuba for America in the 1950s, aiming to be stars of the Latin music scene.

Mississippi Masala (1992)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102456/
Director: Mira Nair
Running time: 118 minutes
Synopsis: An Indian family, expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power, moves to Mississippi, where the daughter falls in love with a black man.

My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0259446/
Director: Joel Zwick
Running time: 95 minutes
Synopsis: Young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek. Struggling to win her family’s acceptance of the match, she gradually finds a better appreciation for her heritage and cultural identity.

Saving Private Ryan (1998)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120815/
Director: Steven Spielberg
Running time: 170 minutes
Synopsis: In this World War II drama, US soldiers from various ethnic, economic and geographic backgrounds join forces to rescue paratrooper Ryan, who is stationed behind enemy lines.

Spellbound (2002)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0334405/
Director: Jeffrey Blitz
Running time: 97 minutes
Synopsis: Eight teenagers, some from immigrant families, have their sights on victory in the 1999 National Spelling Bee.

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