The Immigrant Experience encourages people to think deeply and creatively about how immigrants have created identity in our country. The programs explore the story of American immigration through our history, literature, film, food and culture. The project was made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Noteworthy Immigrants
Inventors - Builders - Authors - Artists - Thinkers - Citizens
Sandra Cisneros (1954-present) is a Chicana author most widely known for her novel The House on Mango Street (1984) and a collection of short stories called Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Cisneros spent her childhood in constant migration between Mexico and the U.S., which contributed to her feelings of “always straddling two countries…but not belonging to either culture.” She addresses the formation of Chicana identity in all of her works, including such issues as misogyny in both her cultures as well as the experience of poverty.
William Blaine “Bill” Richardson III (1947-present) is the current governor of New Mexico. The first Hispanic candidate for the 2008 Democratic Party nomination for President of the United States, Richardson has served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, a U.S. Representative and the U.S. Secretary of Energy under Clinton. Source: Wikipedia.com
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