Columbian Exchange
This resource consists of texts and images dealing with the Columbian Exchange. Its goals is to evaluate the mixed consequences of the Columbian Exchange by examining two of its most infamous elements: small pox and chocolate.
This resource consists of texts and images dealing with the Columbian Exchange. Its goals is to evaluate the mixed consequences of the Columbian Exchange by examining two of its most infamous elements: small pox and chocolate.
This resource consists of historical documents about Chinese coolies imported to Cuba during the 19th century. Its goal is to highlight the human experience during the coolie trade and to encourage critical thinking about how the coolie trade and coolies were portrayed and discussed internationally.
This resource presents political cartoons from four different national contexts. Its goal is to further understandings of the ways in which nation-states affect individuals’ ability to move freely around the world.
This resource uses a text and graft to show how the gender ratio of international migrants--the proportion of male to female migrants--has changed over time. Its goal is to stimulate thinking about shifting gender ratios in global migration and to consider how migration affects men and women differently.
Continue reading " Gender Ratios in Global Migration: Men who Migrate, Women who Wait?" »
This resource couples a visual and descriptive map of urban ethnic enclaves with an oral interview by an immigrant growing up in New York City. Its goal is to provide different ways of “mapping" or understanding life for immigrants living in cities at the turn of the century.
This resource includes memoirs of two women who were forced to flee civil conflicts in their countries. The goal is to further the understanding of how men and women experience political and religious exile differently.
Continue reading "Involuntary Migration: Testimonies of Women Refugees" »
The following sources include a poem and newspaper article that deal with contemporary issues of migration and foodways. Its goal is to examine food as an assertion of ethnic identity and as a site of cultural exchange and contestation between countries and people.
Continue reading "Migration, Food, and Cultural Exchange: Mexico and the United States" »
This resource compares four different world maps. Its goals are to encourage critical thinking about maps as representations and to show how maps influence the ways in which one conceptualizes the world.
Continue reading "Projecting Maps, Making Representations" »
This resource reprints European engravings of Amerindians in colonial New Spain and New Portugal. Its goal is to explain how ideas about race contributed to European justifications of conquest and colonization.
This resource compares oral history and in-depth interviews about two different periods of immigration to the United States. Its goal is to complicate notions of migration as a unidirectional and permanent activity.
Continue reading "Transnational Social Networks: Historically and Today" »
This resource collects British and American texts and political cartoons justifying overseas imperialism during the late 19th century. Its goal is to encourage critical analysis of the ways in which imperialist endeavors were strongly racialized.