The New md传媒国产剧ians: How Immigrants have Transformed md传媒国产剧 since the 1960s
Marilynn Johnson
md传媒国产剧 College
顿补迟别:听September 21, 2016
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Abstract
Drawing on her recent book,听The New md传媒国产剧ians, Johnson will discuss how immigrants have helped transform the md传媒国产剧 metropolitan area since the 1960s as it evolved from an declining manufacturing city to a center of the new knowledge economy. She'll also offer a peak at a related digital history project, Global md传媒国产剧, a website that explores the region's immigration history, past and present.
Speaker Bio
Marilynn Johnson听is a professor of history at md传媒国产剧 College where she teaches modern US urban and social history. She received her Ph.D. in history at New York University and has taught at Southern Methodist University and the Graduate Consortium in Women鈥檚 Studies at MIT. Her research focuses on migration, urban social relations, and violence. Her books include听The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II听(1993) and听Street Justice: A History of Police Violence in New York City听(2004). Most recently, she published听The New md传媒国产剧ians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Area Since the 1960s听(University of Massachusetts Press, 2015). She continues to do research on this subject is currently building a website called听, which explores immigration history in greater md传媒国产剧 from the early 19th century to the present.
Event Photos
Marilynn Johnson, professor of history at md传媒国产剧 College, spoke about her new book--The New md传媒国产剧ians--at a Boisi Center luncheon on September 21.
Photos by MTS Photography
Event Recap
Marilynn Johnson, md传媒国产剧 College professor of history, spoke at the Boisi Center on September 21 on the historic shifts in immigration to md传媒国产剧. Johnson鈥檚 book,听The New md传媒国产剧ians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Area since the 1960s听(University of Massachusetts Press, 2015), was released on the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Immigration Act. The legislation caused changes in immigration by eliminating quotas and expanding preferences for skilled workers and family members of immigrants in the U.S.
md传媒国产剧 has always been an important portal for immigrants, and established ethnic communities draw new immigrants. md传媒国产剧 has witnessed many different waves of immigration over its history; during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, families and largely unskilled workers from Ireland, Italy, China, Russia, and Canada dominated immigration into md传媒国产剧. After the 1965 Immigration Act, the origins of md传媒国产剧鈥檚 immigrants shifted to Central and South America and Asia. Locally, the centers of immigration shifted from md传媒国产剧 itself to its suburbs.
Johnson has continued her research beyond The New md传媒国产剧ians online. Her new project, Global md传媒国产剧 (), was developed to maintain and expand historical accounts of immigrants in md传媒国产剧 and open scholarship on md传媒国产剧鈥檚 immigration to a wider community of citizen-scholars. Johnson intends the website to be an ongoing collaborative project that includes students鈥� efforts to understand and analyze historical trends in immigration.听
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Books
ohnson, Marilynn S.听The New md传媒国产剧ians: How Immigrants Have Transformed the Metro Area Since the 1960s.听Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2015.听听
Halter, Marilyn; Johnson, Marilynn S; Wright, Conrad Edick; Viens, Katheryn P; eds. 鈥淭he Metropolitan Diaspora: New Immigrants in Greater md传媒国产剧,鈥澨�What鈥檚 New about the New Immigration? Traditions and Transformations in the US Since 1965.听Palgrave McMillan, 2014.
What鈥檚 New about the New Immigration: Traditions and Transformations in the United States Since 1965,听edited by Marilynn Johnson, Marilyn Halter, Conrad Edick Wright, and Katheryn P. Viens (Palgrave McMillan, 2014).
Johnson, Marilynn S. 鈥溾�橳he Quiet Revival鈥�: New Immigrants and the Transformation of Christianity in Greater md传媒国产剧,鈥澨�Religion and American Culture听24:2 (Summer 2014): 231-58.
Articles
Johnson, Marilynn S. 鈥淣ew md传媒国产剧 Sprang from the 1965 Immigration Act,鈥澨�md传媒国产剧 Globe听(Ideas section), September 27, 2015.
Johnson, Marilynn S. 鈥淭hirty Years Later, Remembering md传媒国产剧鈥檚 Wave of Anti-Immigrant Violence,鈥澨�md传媒国产剧 Globe听(op-ed), May 22, 2015.
In the News
A recent article published by the听听highlights the growing fears among many md传媒国产剧 immigrants over a possible Trump presidency.