Immigration on Display: Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty Monuments

When:
Thursday, Sep 29, 2016 6:00p -
7:00p

Where:
Boston Athenæum
10 ½ Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108

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Admission:
$15.00

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Event website:
http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/events/3985/immigration-display-ellis-island-and-statue-liberty-monuments

The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island became the quintessential monuments of the immigrant experience during the Cold War. Public historians used both sites to promote the United States as a “nation of immigrants,” utilizing the latest sociological theories of immigration assimilation to construct a narrative that placed European immigrants front and center. While both monuments stressed individuals’ rights and American exceptionalism, they took different approaches. “Immigration on Display” will delineate those approaches and examine how these monuments worked to create a narrative that unified the nation under a common shared experience.


Monica Pelayo is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she also serves as the Director of the Public History Track in the History Master's program. She specializes and teaches courses in twentieth-century social and cultural history, immigration, race and ethnicity, and public history. She is currently working on a book-length study, “Narrating A Nation of Immigrants: Race, Memory and Cultural Policy in Cold War America." As a public historian, she has offered her services to the Bracero Oral History Project, the Studio for Southern California History, the Breed Street Shul, and most recently to an immigrant advocacy organization, Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC). Before she moved to Boston, she received her PhD and MA in History at the University of Southern California and her AB in American Studies at Brown University.


Registration begins September 15 at 9 am.


To register, go to: https://bbd.bostonathenaeum.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=300


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The Athenæum's five galleried floors overlook the peaceful Granary Burying Ground, and, as Gamaliel Bradford wrote in 1931, "it is safe to say that [no library] anywhere has more an atmosphere of its own, that none is more conducive to intellectual aspiration and spiritual peace." The building was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1966.

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