Not exact matches
A Little Village
neighborhood group
on Wednesday announced that it will launch a campaign to get the Chicago Park District to fulfill its three - year - old promise to build and staff a park in the predominantly Mexican
immigrant community.
'» jokes Troche, the child of
immigrant parents who grew up hiding her minority identity
on multiple levels in a tough Chicago
neighborhood during the 1960s and»70s.
I think this commitment is represented well by HGSE faculty members, including some hired during my deanship, for example: Nancy Hill with her work
on parenting and family socialization practices across ethnic, socio - economic, and
neighborhood contexts; Meira Levinson with her work
on civic and multicultural education; Natasha Warikoo with her work
on race, immigration, inequality, and culture as they relate to education; and Hiro Yoshikawa with his work
on the development of young children in
immigrant families.
Further, as one of the rare institutions that welcomes all, closing down a nearby
neighborhood school would place a large burden
on many
immigrant Latino families when the school is quite possibly the only social service that they can access.
Lush Life is set
on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the old, largely Jewish
immigrant neighborhood where Price's grandparents lived - and which today is a popular slumming spot for a young, mostly white crowd.
Just a short ride
on the subway (7 Train) from Manhattan is Jackson Heights, Queens, one of the most diverse
neighborhoods in the city (if not the country) with over 65 % of the population made up of
immigrants, and an estimated 138 languages spoken here.
Rather than doing that, Mexico City - born photographer Amanda Gutiérrez seeks to document her surroundings as she ventures through Brooklyn's Sunset Park, focusing both
on her «subjective experience as a Mexican woman living and working in New York» and painting a photographic portrait of the
neighborhood's Mexican
immigrant community.
From Brewerytown in Philadelphia, a
neighborhood on the National Register of Historic Places, characterized by the remains of the ten breweries that once stood there, to New York City's host of former breweries, run mostly by German
immigrants — our early cities loved beer.
Other select projects include: Artistic Producer for the 4th annual Chicago Home Theater Festival, a 10 - day festival of artistic exchange within
neighborhoods that have experienced systemic disinvestment featuring narratives by and about artists of color, women and femmes, migrants and
immigrants, LGBTQ artists, and artists with disabilities (2016), and Project Coordinator for Our Miss Brooks: A Centennial Celebration, a national a year - long multidisciplinary celebration
on the occasion of the 100th birthday of Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks (2017).
At a moment when South Asian communities, women, and
immigrant neighborhoods like the Lower East Side are being targeted by an evidence - averse administration, this exhibition reflects
on the complex global and personal histories that shape conflicting views of our contemporary moment.
focuses
on the rich cultural history of the
neighborhood and takes an unflinching look at the daily lives of the working - class people and
immigrants who lived there.
A long - time resident of Boston's Roxbury
neighborhood, he has been an activist and organizer
on issues of war,
immigrants» rights, LGBTQ rights, racial justice and Palestinian self - determination.