Past Projects

Ellino-Amerikanopoulo (Feb.1962). Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, NY, NY. Pictured above is the vibrant front cover of the Greek-American Magazine for Children [Ellino-Amerikanopoulo], a monthly bilingual children’s magazine created for Greek-American students that circulated across the United States and Canada during the early 1960s.[i] The magazine was supported by the New York City-based Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America (hereafter Archdiocese), the ecclesiastical administrative body that operated under the jurisdiction of the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul, Turkey. The publication was edited to reflect the prominence of the Greek Orthodox Church in matters related to education, the immigrant experience, citizenship, and social mobility. While a small group of Greek merchants made New York City their home in the...

Photo by: Don Jacobsen, Newsday, August 28, 1983; Queens Library, NYC Published in 1983 by Newsday in a feature story titled, “The Koreans: Making a New Life in New York,” the photograph shows Korean children and their English teacher at a “hakwon” or Korean “cram school” in Flushing, Queens, New York.[1] An educational institution adopted from South Korea, hakwons became established sites of learning in the Korean immigrant community in Flushing after 1965 to boost instruction and achievement for Korean children enrolled in the New York City public schools.  Koreans’ enthusiastic support of hakwons in Flushing fit squarely within the framework of that community’s reach as newcomers to the United States for social and economic mobility. The Newsday article continues with a discussion of the challenges Korean immigrants faced in relocating and settling in the city....

Photo by: Dick DeMarsica, Harlem/World Telegram & Sun, April 29, 1947, Courtesy of Library of Congress From the collections of the Library of Congress, the photograph shows a group of Puerto Ricans in 1947 at Newark Airport in Newark, New Jersey. Granted United States citizenship with the passage of the Jones-Shafroth Act in 1917, Puerto Ricans began migrating to the U.S. in increasing numbers after World War I. By the post-World War II decades, they composed a significant percentage of the population of New York and, thereby, of the student population of the city’s public schools. Despite their status as American citizens, Puerto Ricans faced significant obstacles in realizing the full benefits of U.S. citizenship. Their native Spanish was a barrier to full incorporation and, because they were considered non-white, they experienced racial hostility and discrimination.1 While Puerto Ricans...