Though discussion questions vary in their potential for thoughtful engagement, they provide useful prompts for research and classroom conversation alongside captioned photos and illustrations. Contemporary issues, including President Trump's efforts to end birthright citizenship, bring the history into the present.
Though discussion questions vary in their potential for thoughtful engagement, they provide useful prompts for research and classroom conversation alongside captioned photos and illustrations.
Contemporary issues, including President Trump's efforts to end birthright citizenship, bring the history into the present.
Throughout, Wegwerth emphasizes how immigration policies have disproportionately been created and enforced by white men while underscoring the fundamental truth that Indigenous people were here first and...
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Contemporary issues, including President Trump's efforts to end birthright citizenship, bring the history into the present. Throughout, Wegwerth emphasizes how immigration policies have disproportionately been created and enforced by white men while underscoring the fundamental truth that Indigenous people were here first and still are. Though discussion questions vary in their potential for thoughtful engagement, they provide useful prompts for research and classroom conversation alongside captioned photos and illustrations.
Racism, nativism, and xenophobia receive nuanced attention.
Long before newcomers began arriving at Ellis Island, Indigenous peoples had already lived on this land for thousands of years, but the first permanent Spanish colony in the mid-1500s set in motion what would become a winding road of immigration and relocation trends in the United States.
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