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Shanta Gangolli was interviewed on 04/01/2005 for the first phase of the South Asian Oral History Project.

Busy street corner lined with three story buildings with elaborately carved cornices and balconies; facades decorated with paper lanterns and flowers. Open markets on street level; figures wearing traditional dress crowd streets.

India - caste system

This image is a political cartoon titled "The Coming Man," published in The Wasp magazine on May 20, 1881. It reflects the anti-Chinese sentiment prevalent in the U.S. during the late 19th century, particularly around the time of the Chinese…

Oscar Wilde said “Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.“
Even under the most ideal circumstances, parenting is at best a flawed act of trying to balance teaching our kids what we…

Both documents are excerpts from a larger work, Mary M. Kritz's U.S. IMMIGRATION AND REGUGEE POLICY, 1983. The first, "Current Status of U.S. Immigration and Refugee Policy" by Charles B. Keely, documents why immigration policy is so slow to change.…

English: U.S. inspectors examining eyes of immigrants, Ellis Island, New York Harbor

Caption: Seventy Millions of People Are Starving in the Northern Provinces of China. All Who Can Do So are Making Preparations to Come to the United States. Look Out for the Grasshoppers, Uncle Sam!
Chinese people are depicted as locusts.