Lectures tagged "immigrant"

Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates
William Grant
February 4, 2010
00:50:50
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. executive producer William R. Grant and producer Stephen Ives discuss the series with Dr. David Altshuler, a clinical endocrinologist and human geneticist from the Broad Institute.
Martin Hyun: German-Korean Border Crossings
Martin Hyun
January 21, 2010
00:13:55
Former German Ice-Hockey League player Martin Hyun reads from and discusses his highly acclaimed debut book, Lautlos-Ja, Sprachlos-Nein: Grenzganger zwischen Deutschland und Korea (Soundless-Yes, Speechless-No: Border Crossings Between Germany and Korea).
Audio-only
Chinese in Boston: 1870-1965
Wing kai-To
March 12, 2009
00:50:59
Wing kai-To describes how Chinese in Boston formed a close-knit community that distinguished Boston's Chinatown as one of the oldest and most enduring Chinese neighborhoods on the East Coast.
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Carola and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco: Educational Pathways of Immigrant Youth
Carola Suarez-Orozco
October 23, 2006
01:21:46
Carola and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco describe and discuss determinants of success of among children in their longitudinal study of immigrant youth in this nation's educational system.
Audio-only
After Saigon: Vietnamese Immigrants in America
Nam Pham
December 6, 2005
01:18:07
Thirty years ago, the Fall of Saigon ended the Viet Nam War and led to the first wave of Vietnamese immigration to Boston and other cities in the United States.