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Immigrants Wake America's Podcast

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  • Periodically in history, immigrant women have been the target of dehumanizing anti-immigrant rhetoric and violence. In response, we have created this podcast Immigrants Wake America, in partnership with the Tenement Museum in New York. Immigrants Wake America features storytellers who share stories about migration and the centrality of immigrant women in their lives. Storytelling allows us to find similarities and differences between ourselves and others, thus offering a humanizing counterpart to harmful narratives. The podcast will be a living archive of stories that have not been heard before and serve as an intervention in the ways in which immigrant women’s (hi)stories are narrated and passed on. Hosts & Producers: Le Li & Shruti Jain, PhD students, Binghamton University. Executive Producers: Dr. Lisa Yun, Associate Professor, Binghamton University; Kathryn Lloyd, Senior Director of Programs, Tenement Museum, New York. Immigrants Wake America is supported by the HCI Public Humanities Grant from Humanities New York.

    Immigrants Wake America © 2022 by Immigrants Wake America is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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Episodes
  • Finding Our Grandmother in the Records
    Aug 19 2022

    Our guests today are Nicole Perkins and Tori Atkins. Nicole and Tori are cousins who have been trying to trace their grandmother’s life and history of immigration from Italy to the United States. In this episode, we see a unique blend of storytelling across generations.

    Nicole's story in Your Story, Our Story at the Tenement Museum, New York:
    https://yourstory.tenement.org/stories/social-history-application

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    19 mins
  • Cooking Bonds: Food and Intergenerational Belonging
    Jul 15 2022

     Our guests today are Phariha Rahman and Theresa Alarcon. Both Phariha and Theresa have been Binghamton University students and involved in community engagement.

    Phariha and Theresa talk about the memories of their grandmothers and the complications of stereotypes about immigrants and their descendants. They also discuss how the bonds and values constructed around food influence their sense of self and belonging.

    Phariha's story on Your Story, Our Story at the Tenement Museum:
    https://yourstory.tenement.org/stories/rice-and-daal

    Theresa's story on Your Story, Our Story at the Tenement Museum:
    https://yourstory.tenement.org/stories/empanadas-1936

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    17 mins
  • The Gift and Burden of Tradition
    Jun 15 2022

    Our guests today are Kojo Senoo and Max Kurant. Kojo was a student at Binghamton University and currently works as a photographer in New York City and at the Tenement Museum. Max is a student at Binghamton University who is actively involved in work related to community engagement.

    Kojo and Max talk about how they perceive their personal identity, their relationship with their families, and the conflicts or contradictions they negotiate within their families and in the world at large.

    Kojo's story on Your Story, Our Story  at the Tenement Museum:
    https://yourstory.tenement.org/stories/internal-medicine-sign
     
    Max's story on Your Story, Our Story  at the Tenement Museum:
    https://yourstory.tenement.org/stories/my-mother-s-manti-pot




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    16 mins

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