Author Archives: Alice Liu

All along East Houston between Avenue C and Norfolk street, the sides of buildings are painted with murals and graffiti. Particularly on East Houston and between Norfolk and Suffolk street, there is a side of building that is covers in … Continue reading →

Portes and Wilson theorize that immigrants, rather than them coming empty handed to the United States, actually came with an entire network of immigrants, which aids in their economic development in the new country. Based on their theory, the network … Continue reading →

After reading Gabaccia’s Food Fights and American Values, I felt like it is completely ridiculous that Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth century tried to create a science to justify the fact that foods of other nationalities are incompetent and … Continue reading →

After reading Gerstle’s Liberty, Coercion, and the Makings of Americans and looking at 19ths and 20th century assimilation political cartoons, I wondered to myself, are the efforts to “become American” worth it? In the cartoons, we see Americans dehumanizing African … Continue reading →

In the articles “In Queens: A Melting Pot, and a Closed Book” by Adam Ellick and “The Meltingest Pot” by Suketu Mehta, authors write about the diversity of Queens. Although both journalist talk about the same topic using similar narrating … Continue reading →