Becoming American and Creating America
May 31, 2019 5:00 pm Leave your thoughtsBecoming American and Creating America “Diffusion of ideas, a pattern of behavior, or an exchange of material objects is always... View Article
Tag Archive: immigration reform
How popular culture absorbs and processes the immigrant experience; The Next Becoming American: film and discussion series
April 25, 2019 11:50 am Leave your thoughts“The Search for General Tso,” asks: If Chinese Americans comprise only 1 percent of the U.S. population, why are there... View Article
Becoming American: Help Wanted? Immigration and Work
March 6, 2019 6:00 pm Leave your thoughts“Help Wanted? Immigration and Work” looks at the economic side of immigration, chronicling the essential part immigrant labor has played... View Article
Becoming American: Promise and Prejudice
January 16, 2019 6:00 pm Leave your thoughts“Promise and Prejudice” explores the tension – historic and current – between Americans’ acceptance of immigrants, including the celebration of... View Article
What’s Happening This Week?
January 14, 2019 3:55 pm Leave your thoughtsHappy Monday, readers! It’s a cold, cold day here on Salem Harbor. January in New England has certainly arrived! In... View Article
Becoming American: A Documentary Film and Community Conversation Series
December 5, 2018 6:00 pm Leave your thoughtsImmigration has been an ongoing and central component of American history, with identifiable peak periods. Between 1820 and 1924, forty... View Article
The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape
February 27, 2018 12:00 am Leave your thoughtsThe House of the Seven Gables will have photographer Mark Chester’s work The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape on view... View Article
Exhibit Opening and Community Conversation
January 30, 2018 6:00 pm Leave your thoughtsThe House of the Seven Gables will have photographer Mark Chester’s work The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape on view... View Article
Caribbean Connections 2015, by Ana Nuncio, Manager of Settlement Partnerships
September 17, 2015 4:22 pmAs the school year ended last June, Gables staff was busy preparing for the third phase of Caribbean Connections, a... View Article
Community Day at The Gables, by Ana Nuncio, Manager of Settlement Partnerships
September 17, 2015 3:42 pmOn Thursday, August 6th, The Gables hosted a city-wide Community Day that showcased the talents of high school students. The... View Article
Book Review: "Undocumented: A Dominican Boy's Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League" by Rae Padilla Francoeur
September 15, 2015 10:14 amUndocumented: A Dominican Boy’s Odyssey from a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League By Dan-el Padilla Peralta. Penguin Press, New... View Article
Recognizing Immigrants as Assets
June 16, 2015 3:48 pmby Rae Francoeur “Immigrants are and always have been assets to our communities and our economy,” says Denzil Mohammed, the... View Article