Immigrant Memory

Critical Texts & Preparatory Materials:

• Leo Spitzer, “Back through the Future: Nostalgic Memory and Critical Memory as a Refuge from Nazism” in Cultural Memory in the Present
  (Course Reader)

• from Julia Creet, Memory and Migration: Multidiscplinary Approaches to Memory Studies
  (Course Reader)

Site Visits:

• Ellis Island Immigration Museum

• Tenement Museum

• Museum of the Chinese in America

• “The Jewish Journey” at the Jewish Museum