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Global Race, Ethnicity, Migration
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Global Race, Ethnicity, Migration

Global REM (Race, Ethnicity, Migration) is designed to strengthen an existing cluster of faculty and the departments, programs and interdisciplinary research centers with which they are associated, extending the contributions they already make to the diversification of research and teaching at the University of Minnesota. Minnesota has long nurtured scholarly expertise and teaching on race, ethnicity and migration. (The birthplace of immigration history in the 1920s and home of pioneering American Studies Department for over a half century, the first REM initiative organized a seminar and conference in the late 1990s.) U.S.-focused in its earlier iterations, new hires have internationalized scholarship on REM across the disciplines.

Globalization and rising flows of population inevitably raise questions about how race, ethnicity, and other forms of cultural diversity are structured and understood in all parts of the world. Global REM hopes to bring networks of expertise on all world regions into regular conversation. With a scholarly seminar, a program of pedagogy discussions and a conference planned for 2007-2008, Global REM faculty will play a special role in the education of new and increasingly diverse undergraduate and graduate students. Global REM faculty can provide the cultural expertise needed by the U to work effectively with new and old immigrant and ethnic communities in the Twin Cities and beyond.

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The 2 volume set Daily Life in Immigrant America 1820-1870 (by James M. Bergquist) and Daily Life in Immigrant America 1870-1920 (by June Granatir Alexander) is being released in soft cover. Readers will find the approach similar to David Kyvig's Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940.

Bergquist recreates "the world of the immigrants in order to understand their daily lives as they lived them." Alexander writes in the introduction: "This close examination of the multifaceted aspects of daily life reveals the strategies immigrants developed in order to survive and achieve the goals that brought them to America." Through compelling personal accounts, we learn how the first and second great wave of immigrants made their way in American life.

Daily Life in Immigrant America 1820-1870 info and order
Daily Life in Immigrant America 1870-1920 info and order

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