Immigrants in America, 1970
Description
This historical documentary compares the different ways that ethnic groups arrived in America. The film focuses on the difference between the arrival of Africans through slavery and the arrival of Irish, Italians, and Asians through immigration. The footage emphasizes the economic disparity and prejudice that all ethnic groups faced and the conditions that allowed successive generations of European-Americans and Asian-Americans to improve their conditions while African-Americans could not.
Runtime
21 min
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2012], c2008
Database
Films on Demand
Direct Link
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