Suggested Readings

• Daughter of Fortune- Isabel Allende
• El Norte (Film)
• Cracking India- Bapsi Sidhwa
• Earth (Movie based on Cracking India)
• The Magic School Bus Goes Upstream: A Book About Salmon Migration
• International Migration: A Very Short Introduction- Khalid Koser
• The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations - Ira Berlin
• Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants- David Bacon
• The Odyssey- Homer
• The Joy Luck Club- Amy Tan
• History: A Novel - Elsa Morante
• This article on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and migratory birds
• This OTHER article on migratory birds, but not at all about the oil spill
• Watch BBC's "Life" Documentaries.
• Angels in America (a two-part play) by Tony Kushner - this was, for me, what brought the entire idea of proposing "migration" as a theme to the forefront.
• The Americanization of Mental Illness - how we export our diagnoses and why they don't always translate across cultures
• The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors and The Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
• How the Irish Became White by Noel Ignatiev
• How Jews Became White Folks: And What That Says About Race in America by Karen Brodkin
• The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
• Geographies of Home-Loida Maritza Perez
• Enrique's Journey-Sonia Nazario
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-Junot Diaz
• The Last Patriarch-Najat El Hachmi
• This is the Arizona immigration bill, in its newly amended form
• The Other Real Estate Value - some ideas about "home"
• Global Migration: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/weekinreview/27deparle.html?pagewanted=2&ref=weekinreview
• http://thewildsource.com/tws/blog/post/2009/10/60-Minutes-Great-Migration-Story.aspx This is a link to a video from a 60 minutes piece about a great animal migration in Africa.
• This goes with what I was saying about trying to stop cultural migration.
• The Diaspora Need Not Apply - "Who is a Jew" and "the quiescence of diaspora Jewry"
• Modern Odysseys - the author of this article also mentions a book called Rebel Land that I hope to look into as something we could read.
• Hummus Catches On in America (As Long as It's Flavored)
• This is an article about art in modern Detroit and basically the way it is now that the city is a shambles
• Where Americans Are Moving - an interactive, inter-county migration map
• Here is an interesting article about the Muslim experience in the US. Some comparisons are made to other immigrant groups of the past in it.
• Away We Go - I might not suggest this if I weren't so interested in the idea of "home" - more of an indie romcom than a serious film, but it still investigates the notion and might be a nice mid-semester break…
• I have added another article, the one from Scientific American on humans and the sea. Go to the General Suggestions Page, to the bottom and click on Files. It will be there. ~Ben