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The Full Montgomery

Alabama’s Capital Hosts a Rich, and Honest, Display of History

January 27, 2012

Constantino Diaz-Duran is a fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University. He is chronicling his walk from New York to Los Angeles to celebrate his eligibility for American citizenship. Follow Constantino’s progress.

I took a short trip to Montgomery a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to see the city that was both the first capital of the Confederacy and arguably the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement. I wanted to pay homage to one of my heroes, Rosa Parks, and walk down the streets where she pronounced the “no” heard around the world. …

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Let’s Go West

New Gear, and New Questions, for Getting on the Road Again

On January 18, 2012

Constantino Diaz-Duran is a fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University. He is chronicling his walk from New York to Los Angeles to celebrate his eligibility for American citizenship. Follow Constantino’s progress.

If I had walked a straight line across the continent, I would probably be home–or close to it–by now. But the walk South and the stay in Alabama have been worth the delay. I’m still headed south for a few hundred miles more (I can’t miss New Orleans), but I’m now ready to start the westward trek. I’m fixin’ (that’s Southern for “getting ready”) to leave Tuscaloosa, and I’m hoping to be in the Big Easy for Mardi Gras. …

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Like A Pig To Mud

Southern Living Ain’t Half Bad

On December 7, 2011

Constantino Diaz-Duran is a fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University. He is chronicling his walk from New York to Los Angeles to celebrate his eligibility for American citizenship. Follow Constantino’s progress.

“We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside, no matter where you’re from, you just can’t hide,” sings Blake Shelton. Well, I’m getting ready to hit the road again after the holidays, and as I see my days in the Deep South numbered, all I can say is that I’ve taken to it “like a pig to mud, like a cow to cud.” …

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The Marriage Of Two Movements

Immigration Reform and Civil Rights Team Up in Alabama

On November 29, 2011

Constantino Diaz-Duran is a fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University. He is chronicling his walk from New York to Los Angeles to celebrate his eligibility for American citizenship. Follow Constantino’s progress.…

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One Family, One Alabama

Photos from a Rally to Repeal Alabama’s Immigration Law

On November 22, 2011

Constantino Diaz-Duran is a fellow at the Center for Social Cohesion at Arizona State University. He is chronicling his walk from New York to Los Angeles to celebrate his eligibility for American citizenship. Follow Constantino’s progress.…

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How One Family Created Chinese America
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The Lucky Ones, by Mae Ngai The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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