The Metropolitan History
Workshop presents a roundtable discussion:
What do we mean when we say
Post-1965 Immigration?: Rethinking the way we teach the 1965 Immigration Reform
Act, 40 years later.
Featuring David Reimers (New
York University) and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof (University of Michigan)
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Friday, February 3, 2006
Haven Hall, Room 3512
In the four decades since the
Immigration Reform Act of 1965, the notion that this legislation represented a
watershed in U.S. immigration history has become a commonplace. The panelists will discuss problems
with the ways the act is imagined (and taught) as great opening, an end to
national origins restrictions, and the foundational moment of a new multicultural society. Faculty and graduate students are
invited to participate in a conversation to rethink how we teach
"post-65" immigration from Latin America, Asia, Africa, and other
regions of the globe.
This event is designed for
faculty and graduate students, although others are welcome. After initial presentations by the
panelists, the remainder of the time will revolve around audience discussion.
David Reimers is Emeritus
Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of numerous
books, including OTHER IMMIGRANTS: THE GLOBAL ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
(New York University Press, 2005) and UNWELCOME STRANGERS: AMERICAN IDENTITY
AND THE TURN AGAINST IMMIGRATION (Columbia University Press, 1998).
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is
Assistant Professor of History and American Culture at the University of
Michigan. He is the author of A
TALE OF TWO CITIES: SANTA DOMINGO, NEW YORK, AND A CHANGING WORLD SINCE 1950
(forthcoming, Princeton University Press).
More information about the
Metropolitan History Workshop can be found here:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mlassite/metro/metroworkshop.html