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THE CHANGING FACE OF AMERICA: PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMMIGRATION,1880-1920

THE CHANGING FACE OF AMERICA: PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMMIGRATION,1880-1920

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From 1880-1920, a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization, as many as twenty million immigrants arrived in the United States. This slide/lecture explores the role of photography in representing immigrant life and shaping how the United States was imagined as a haven for the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” In documenting the arrival and living conditions of mostly European immigrants, photographers such as Jacob Riis (1849-1914) and Lewis Hine (1874-1940) captured the changing face of an increasingly diverse nation and exposed the lure and limits of the American Dream.
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About the lecturer(s)

Willie Hiatt

Willie Hiatt, a Kentucky native, is an Associate Professor of History at Long Island University, Post Campus, and a former Society for the Humanities Fellow at Cornell University (2019-20). He’s the author of The Rarified Air of the Modern: Airplanes and Technological Modernity in the Andes (Oxford, 2016). His current research is an oral history project examining how Maoist insurgents in Peru targeted high-tension towers during the Shining Path movement (1980-92).

Lecture Details

Sessions

1 lecture(s)
Day & Time

Wednesday, 10:00am - 12:00pm
Date(s)

Nov 01, 2023