This is an outstanding post Megan. Gordon writes about neighborhoods like the Lower East Side, “the self-contained communal life of the immigrant colonies served, then, as a kind of decompression chamber in which the newcomers could, at their own pace, make a reasonable adjustment to the new forces of a society vastly different from that which…[Read more]
In reply to - meganwong wrote a new post, Cultural Immersion, on the site The Peopling of NYC “Did you do well in school today?” Such a simple question, standard in all American households, holds a deeper meaning in the homes […]↧