{"id":505,"date":"2025-08-27T17:18:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T17:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/?page_id=505"},"modified":"2025-11-03T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T15:36:09","slug":"immigration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/course-syllabus\/immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-11.40.27-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5568\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-11.40.27-AM-1024x493.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-11.40.27-AM-1024x493.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-11.40.27-AM-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-11.40.27-AM-768x370.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-11.40.27-AM-1536x740.png 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-11.40.27-AM-2048x986.png 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-118pinsker\/files\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-16-at-11.40.27-AM-500x241.png 500w\" alt=\"Mulberry St 3\" width=\"940\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This colorized photograph captures an immigrant community on Mulberry Street in New York around 1900. For more information on a nearby tenement house and its residents (97 Orchard Street), visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tenement.org\/explore\/97-orchard-street\/\">Tenement Museum in New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>TEXT:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/fys-pinsker\/texts\/emma-lazarus-the-new-colossus-1883\/\">Lazarus, &#8220;The New Colossus&#8221; (1883)<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The poem takes a Petrarchan sonnet form, which means it has two divisions:\u00a0 eight lines or octave followed by six lines or sestet with a change in rhyme scheme and turn in thought or volta between them<\/li>\n<li>Hirsch also emphasizes the importance of meter to Lazarus &#8211;how the poem rejects iambic pentameter and instead &#8220;echoes&#8221; traditional Greek epic meter (dactylic hexameter) (p. 73)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>CONTEXT:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/19-american-empire\/#VI_Immigration\">New Immigrants<\/a><\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Between 1870 and 1920, over twenty-five million immigrants arrived in the United States. This migration was largely a continuation of a process begun before the Civil War, though by the turn of the twentieth century, new groups such as Italians, Poles, and Eastern European Jews made up a larger percentage of the arrivals while Irish and German numbers began to dwindle.&#8221; &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/text\/19-american-empire\/#VI_Immigration\"><em>American Yawp<\/em>, Chapter 19: Sec. IV<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US immigration policy was fast evolving in the 1880s, moving from a period of relatively no systemic regulation to one of increasingly tightening federal controls, embodied by the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) and culminating with the National Origins Act (1924)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>SUBTEXT:\u00a0 Defining Freedom<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Why did Lazarus prefer to emphasize offering freedom and equality for new American immigrants rather than former slaves?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>METHODS CENTER &#8212;<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/files\/2011\/08\/HANDOUT-How-to-Frame-a-Question.pdf\">Research Questions<\/a><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand how to find a good essay or paper topic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This colorized photograph captures an immigrant community on Mulberry Street in New York around 1900. For more information on a nearby tenement house and its residents (97 Orchard Street), visit the\u00a0Tenement Museum in New York City. 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