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BE21 - Professor Martha Dressler: Primary v. Secondary Sources

This purpose of this guide is to provide a list of sources related to finding immigration information for primary and secondary sources in comparing the novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith .

Primary Vs. Secondary Sources

Comparing Primary and Secondary Sources

The novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith - Primary Source

Literary criticism about A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Secondary Source

Living Illegal: the Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration by Marie Marquardt - Primary Source

The Weight of Shadows: A memoir of immigration and displacement by Jose Orduna - Primary Source

The U.S Patriot Act - Primary Source

A New York Times article about the The U.S Patriot Act - Secondary Source

Lescaze, Zoë. “13 Artists On: Immigration.” The New York Times, 19 June 2018. NYTimes.com, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/t-magazine/immigration-art.html. - Primary Source

“This Immigrant Now Lives the American Dream: Do You Have a Problem with That?” Kansascity, https://www.kansascity.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/jenee-osterheldt/article171637017.html. Accessed 9 July 2018. - Primary Source

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Articles on cultural diversity

Bennett, C. L. (1994, Apr 01). Changing your name does not change who you are.Philadelphia Tribune Retrieved from http://qbcc.ezproxy.cuny.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.qbcc.ezproxy.cuny.edu/docview/337751823?accountid=28449

Daniels, Roger. “No Lamps Were Lit for Them: Angel Island and the Historiography of Asian American Immigration.” Journal of American Ethnic History, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 3–18. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27502236.

Orchard, William, and Padilla, Yolanda. “Lost in Adaptation: Chicana History, the Cold War, and the Case of Josephina Niggli.(Works of the Writer)(Biography).” Women's Studies Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 3 4, 2005, pp. 90–113. https://www-jstor-org.qbcc.ezproxy.cuny.edu/stable/40004420

Popkin, Susan M. “A Spirit of Inclusion: Reading for Cultural Diversity.” Beyond Behavior, vol. 2, no. 1, 1990, pp. 16–17. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44706985.

Whitfield, Stephen J. "Visions of Belonging: Family Stories, Popular Culture, and Postwar Democracy, 1940-1960." American Jewish History, vol. 92, no. 4, 2004, pp. 520-V. ProQuest, http://qbcc.ezproxy.cuny.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.qbcc.ezproxy.cuny.edu/docview/228214368?accountid=28449.