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FDR’s Black Eye

Posted on November 28, 2021 by Ken Dowell

How we closed the door on German Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis. Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged history, Franklin Delano roosevelt, World War II, refugees, Holocaust, Wagner-Rogers Bill | 5 Comments

Ethnocentrism and the Roaring Twenties

Posted on November 21, 2021 by Ken Dowell

The creation of immigration quotas. Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged 1920's, Dillingham Commission, Emergency Quota Act of 1921, history, immigrants, Immigration Act of 1924, immigration quotas, Immigration Restriction League, national origins, nativism | 4 Comments

Lange/Liu: Images of the Depression

Posted on November 18, 2021 by Ken Dowell

From Hung Liu exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery Continue reading →

Posted in Art, History | Tagged art, deression, Dorothea Lange, history, Hung Liu, museums, National Portrait Gallery, painting | 2 Comments

Is This the Most Discriminatory Act of Congress Ever?

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Ken Dowell

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged California, Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese immigrants, history, Sen. John Miller | 6 Comments

MFF21: Landmarks of My Youth on the Big Screen

Posted on November 11, 2021 by Ken Dowell

American River and One All the Way Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American River, documentaries, film, Hot Texas Weiner, Montclair Film Festival, movies, One All the Way, Passaic River | 11 Comments

Morality, Sexism or Racism? The Page Act of 1875

Posted on November 7, 2021 by Ken Dowell

Slamming the door on Asian women Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged California, Chinese immigrants, Horace F. Page, Page Act, prostitution, racism | 8 Comments

MFF21: I Can See the World from My Cinema Seat

Posted on November 4, 2021 by Ken Dowell

Short reviews of international features from the Montclair Film Festival Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Chiara, A Hero, film, film festivals, film reviews, Montclair Film Festival, movies, Power of the Dog, The Worst Person in the World | 1 Comment

‘I Know Nothing.’ The Politics of Xenophobia in the 19th Century

Posted on October 31, 2021 by Ken Dowell

The rise and fall of the Know-Nothings Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged 1850's, Anti-Catholicism, bigotry, Bill the Butcher, history, Know-Nothings, Millard Fillmore, nativism, Samuel Morse, Xenophobia | 9 Comments

Festivals ‘R’ Us

Posted on October 28, 2021 by Ken Dowell

Montclair’s season of music, books and film. Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Montclair, Montclair Film Festival, Montclair Jazz Festival, Montclair Literary Festival | 5 Comments

The Forty-Eighters: Immigrants for Social Justice

Posted on October 24, 2021 by Ken Dowell

German immigrant abolitionists. Continue reading →

Posted in History | Tagged 19th century, abolition, Carl Schurz, Forty-Eighters, German immigrants, Harold Raster, history, Karl Daniel Adolph douai | 2 Comments

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