Author Archives: Rafa Sattar
Store Front Survivors/ Raw Materials: Rafa, Joanne
Possible Title- Court Pastry Shop: Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth, Court Pastry Shop: A Cherished Cornerstone of Cobble Hill Link to Folder with Interviews and Pictures: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzJYOIb0L_47MHM4OXE2OEZyOWc?usp=sharing Pull Quotes: Eric- “If you support small business, small business support local charities, schools, and … Continue reading
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Looking Forward, Looking Back
When speaking with Eric, the store manager of Court Pastry Shop, he particularly described an instance when a Black-American woman had come to the bakery to simply express her gratitude for the kindness and equity she was met with when … Continue reading
Zooming In, Zooming Out
From well-dressed residents idyllically walking their purebred dogs to the superlative customer service Joanne and I were received with at local businesses, Court Street in Carroll Gardens in many ways reminded me of the Upper East Side. Nonetheless, the neighborhood … Continue reading
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Enclaves, Eyesores, and the Willets Point Repair Shop
Guest underscores street-by-street observation as an ideal means of data collection within ethnic enclaves particularly within the Chinese community of New York City. Distinct from the institutionalized position of religion in Western societies, religion in China is intertwined into the … Continue reading
Your Story, Our Story: Stamp and Inkpad
http://yourstory.tenement.org/artifacts/business-stamp-and-inkpad The text on this wooden stamp reads “Lecturer/Dept of Elect, and Electronic Eng/B.I.T Khulna”. The ink pad and business seal were given to my father upon working at his first job as a university lecturer in Bangladesh in 1987. … Continue reading
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Food Fights and American Values
Milk has long held a venerated role in American cuisine; establishing its medicinal value has long been used as a means to establish the superiority of American culture and substantiate the need for cultural assimilation. Interestingly, while domestic scientists condemned … Continue reading
Oral History #2
Exiting the subway, Joanne and I were greeted with the conspicuous logos of chain stores such as CVS and Popeyes; in contrast, the few small businesses located within the area had a much more unkempt, austere appearance. Being near a transit center, … Continue reading
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The Dead Rabbits Riot
Before illustrating the Dead Rabbits Riot itself, Abinger takes into consideration the multiple elements that lead to a gradual escalation of indignation amongst Irish-American immigrants among them nativist movements, prohibition laws, and an overall erratic political climate ripe for discord … Continue reading
Oral History #1
Throughout the span of almost 4 hours, Joanne and I had exhausted entire streets in the pursuit of finding a single employee who would be willing to be interviewed. We found ourselves drawn toward the melodious tunes of Latin American … Continue reading
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Assimilation in Immigrant Societies
As a seventh-grade student, I went to school with students who were predominantly like me: children of immigrants. Thus, following celebrating the Islamic holiday Eid, I went to school indifferent to the curved, colorful henna design decorating my hands; in … Continue reading
