Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations: Mixed-Heritage Families in BrooklynPosted in Articles, History, Media Archive, Social Science, United States on 2011-06-18 11:27Z by Steven |
Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations: Mixed-Heritage Families in Brooklyn
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn, New York
April 2011
Project Description
Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations (CBBG) is a public programming series and oral history project about mixed-heritage families, race, ethnicity, culture, and identity, infused with historical perspective. CBBG is currently in the planning phase (April 2011 – March 2012) and will result in a multi-faceted interpretive website expected to be completed in 2015.
By providing a public forum for conversations about mixed-heritage families, Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations will inform the dialogue with historical perspectives on social constructions of race, ethnicity, and community; changes in immigration and citizenship laws and practices; and changes in marriage and partnership laws and practices. Through an interpretive website, online discussions initiated and led by scholars, public programs and events, Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) will invite the public to share their own stories, respond to other people’s stories, react to, and learn from scholarly interpretations of these stories…
…Scholarly Advisors
Mary Marshall Clark, Director of the Oral History Research Office
Columbia University
Martha Hodes, Professor of History
New York University
Keren R. McGinity, History
University of Michigan
Suleiman Osman, Assistant Professor of American Studies
George Washington University
Renee Romano, History
Oberlin College
Michael J. Rosenfeld, Associate Professor of Sociology
Stanford University
Elizabeth M. Smith-Pryor, Associate Professor of History
Kent State University
Karen Woods Weierman, Associate Professor of English (Literary History)
Worcestor State University
Project Staff
Sady Sullivan, Director of Oral History
Brooklyn Historical Society
For more information, click here. View the PDF brochure here.