Author Archives: Tamar Herman

“… Muslims in New York City, in order to gain political and economic power, are reconfiguring religion into ethnicity…” (160). After our discussion in the last class about race and prejudice in New York City, this sentence in the Slyomovics … Continue reading →

The thing that most stood out to be as I started to read the Galvez book Guadalupe In New York was the fact that sweeping is an important aspect of the Mexican community. To me, sweeping is a chore that … Continue reading →

I was extremely interested in the idea that the Haitians had about New York, in comparison to the Italians, as described starting on page 133 of the McAlister reading. We have seen, from the Orsi book, that the Italians came … Continue reading →

As I was reading the chapter “The Meanings of the Devotion to the Madonna of 115th Street” in the Robert A. Orsi book, I couldn’t help but imagine a picture of the Madonna in my mind. And this picture looked … Continue reading →

Family is the double-edge sword a lot of the time, especially in East Harlem it seems. Between pages 75-96, Orsi depicts a family-oriented tight-knit Italian community that seems commendable. The family is the most important thing and this isn’t disputed. … Continue reading →

New York City: Family-oriented and inviting. What?? That’s not the average person’s view of New York City. Yet in the first two chapters of The Madonna of 115th Street by Robert A. Orsi, the image of East Harlem that is … Continue reading →

Michael Walzer discusses that usually by the third generation, immigrants see themselves as Americans, but he claims that they will never consider the United States to be their ‘home.’ So if you are a person who is past the fourth … Continue reading →