Ocean Vuong, poems & essay

"Beginnings: New York"
The Adroit Journal 12 (Summer 2015)

"Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong"
The New Yorker (May 4, 2015)

"Aubade with Burning City"
Poetry (February 2014)

The Brooklyn College Listening Project

The BC Listening Project - launched in Spring 2015 - is a platform for supporting students to conduct interviews with members of the Brooklyn community.

Main BCLP homepage

Sample interviews conducted by BC students: double-click Brooklyn College Listening Project, then select an audio file.

Documents to use in conjunction with your interviews.

Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry (1942) and Registration questionnaire (1943)

Poster instructing all persons of Japanese descent to report to a Civilianian Control Station for evacuation to detainment camp, on order of U.S. Wartime Civil Control Administration.

Registration

In February 1943, incarcerated Japanese Americans were forced to fill out an Application for Leave Clearance, which soon became known as the "loyalty questionnaire." It included two questions which would have devastating consequences:

Question #27:
"Are you willing to serve in the armed forces of the United States on combat duty wherever ordered?"

Question #28:
"Will you swear unqualified allegiance to the United States of America and faithfully defend the United States from any or all attack by foreign or domestic forces, and forswear any form of allegiance or obedience to the Japanese emperor, or any other foreign government, power, or organization?

War Manpower Commission - Americans All (1942)

President Roosevelt's 1941 Executive Order 8802, which the poster quotes, prohibited discrimination based on "race, creed, color, or national origin" in defense production.

Executive Order 9066 (1942)

Transcript of Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)


 

Virtual Exhibition: Immigration and Caricature (Michigan State Univ)

Click here for the Immigration and Caricature Exhibition

Note that there are three sections: (I) Welcome to All; (II) Caricature and Stereotype; (III) Assimilation and Acceptance.

Photographs from the Children’s Aid Society (Italian) Settlement House

Click here for the Children's Aid Society Five Points (Italian) House Photographs
The 24 photos may be scrolled by clicking the left and right arrows above the frame once you're on the site.

Click here for an explanation of the Children's Aid Society initiative

Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine

Jacob Riis, excerpt from How the Other Half Lives (1890).

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Jacob Riis, Bandit's Roost (1890)

Jacob Riis, Scene in Tenement (1890)

Jacob Riis, Street Arabs (1890)

Jacob Riis, Tenement Life (1890)

Jacob Riis, The Bend (1890)

Lewis Hine, Homework on Pants (1905)

Lewis Hine, Italian Family Looking for Lost Bags (1905)

Lewis Hine, Italian Madonna (1905)

Lewis Hine, Making Pillow Lace (1911)

Lewis Hine, New York Tenement (1910)

Lewis Hine, Polish Steelworker (1908)

Lewis Hine, Portrait of an Immigrant (1915)