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Macaulay Honors College
at Baruch, Spring 2011Professor Els de Graauw
ITF Emily Sherwood -
Authors
▪ Alyssa Alicino
▪ Brandon Baksh
▪ Ru Xiao Chen
▪ Belinda Chiu
▪ Els de Graauw
▪ Becca Glickman
▪ Elisabeth Greenberg
▪ Doris Hu
▪ Peky Huang
▪ Toby Joseph
▪ Haesol Jun
▪ Nika Kartvelishvili
▪ Farrukh Khan
▪ Holly Kiang
▪ Julian Kipnis
▪ Kar Yi Lim
▪ Yang Lin
▪ Cait McCarthy
▪ Sofya Moshkovich
▪ Mariya Tuchinskaya
▪ Ying Zhang Login
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Not Exactly Off the Boat
Hey, my name is Cait McCarthy.
Nice to meet you.
I am a lot of things; I am 18, a Brooklynite, a New Yorker, a student, an actress, an undecided major, and three generations away from being anything close to an immigrant. My father’s parents came from Ireland in the 1950s, and my mother’s parents have pretty much been here since the Mayflower. So, in a way, my family were some of my first immigrants.
Even though I didn’t pass through Ellis Island like my family did over 60 years ago, I have seen my fair share of changing neighborhoods, and could pretty much rattle off what groups live in any given Brooklyn neighborhood with the wink of an eye. We live in a land of immigrants, and we’re all living in the heart of it.