Author Archives: Rawan

This weeks articles mainly focused on second-generation immigrants and how they are struggling to find their unique identity within the vast and diverse culture of New York City that can be overwhelming. In Butterfield’s article, she goes through many personal … Continue reading →

Nancy Foner adequately summarizes many of the experiences held by immigrants in relation with schooling, and their connections to their homeland in these two chapters of the book. Foner mentions that transnational migrants of a hundred years ago, and those … Continue reading →

In both Henry Goldschmidt’s Race and Religion Among the Chosen People of Crown Heights, and in Robert Orsi’s The Madonna of 115th Street, there is a key idea that both of these books run by. It is the idea that … Continue reading →

Hispanic Population – 2010 Census Community District QU3 – Jackson Heights % Hispanic or Latino persons 108643 63.8 Not Hispanic or Latino persons 61582 36.2   Hispanic Origin by Race – 2010 Census Community District QU3 – Jackson Heights % … Continue reading →

In this week’s articles, the pieces primary focus was on the distinction of race and ethnicity as others before me have already mentioned. I found this week’s articles very shocking because of the way, people, mainly those who migrate to … Continue reading →

Through all four of the pieces, they all share the same central idea, the seemingly simple idea of space. Davila mentions in his article that most cultural geographers believe space “that space is always socially constituted, and not solely through … Continue reading →

Immigrants have been migrating to America in great masses for over a century, with the hopes of finding new life while trying to create a bright and prosperous future for themselves, and for their children. Kansinitz et al argues in … Continue reading →

David Levinsky’s struggle to assimilate himself into the culture of a society holistically different from his Russian roots in Abraham Cahan’s, The Rise of David Levinsky, tells us emphatically that the maxim, “Money can’t buy you happiness” is true. David … Continue reading →