Annotated Bibliography
Abelmann, Nancy. Blue Dreams: Korean Americans and the Los Angeles Riots. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995. See Chapter 4 discussion of residential segregation in L.A.
Alberta Learning. Using Film in the Classroom, Senior High School English Language Arts Guide to Implementation. Alberta Canada, 2003, http://vtshome.org/what-is-vts/method-curriculum—2
Ali, Monica. Brick Lane. New York: Scribner, 2003. The novel on which the film is based.
Alvarez, Brenda. "Flipping the Classroom: Homework in Class. Lessons at Home." National Education Association, Feb. 22, 2012.
Anderson, Bridget. Us and Them? Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. An excellent source for the history of immigration to Great Britain.
AP World History Course Planning and Pacing Guide 1. The College Board, 2011.
Avila, Eric. Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. See Chapter 3 on film analysis, particularly of film noir and science fiction.
Bean, Frank D. and Lindsay B. Lowell. "Unauthorized Migration." In New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007
Call the Midwife. (NR) Series 2, Episode 7. Produced by Pippa Harris and Heidi Thomas, BBC, 2013. Common Sense Media (commonsensemedia.org) rated this program as PG13.
Crosby, Alfred W. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. An easy-to-read, big-picture analysis of the reasons for European imperialism.
Dirty Pretty Things. (R) Dir. Stephen Frears, BBC films, 2003
El Norte. (R) (Dir. Gregory Nava. American Playhouse, Channel Four Films, Independent Productions, Island Alive, PBS, 1983.
Ferguson, Niall. Empire, the rise and demise of the British world order and the lessons for global power. Basic Books, 2004
Frieden, Jeffrey. Global Capitalism. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006
Gray, Gordon. Cinema: A Visual Anthropology. Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2010.
Chapter 3 "Context of production, distribution and exhibition" outlines the film analysis models.
Haines, David W. "Refugees." In New Americans: A Guide to Immigration since 1965. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. This article provides history of the law, and data involving refugees.
Hall, Alexandra. Border Watch: Cultures of Immigration and Control. London, Pluto Press, 2012. An anthropological analysis of a detention center in Great Britain.
Hofer, Mark, Kathy Swan and Sharon Zuber."Teaching Social Studies Students to "Write with Light" Using the Documentary Filmmaking Process" in Social Education 78 (3), pp. 131-137 May-June 2014 National Council for the Social Studies
Insdorf, Annette. "El Norte: On Screen and in Reality, a story of struggle", The New York Times, Jan. 8, 1984
Irby, Caroline. A Child From Everywhere: photographs and interviews with children from 185 countries living in the U.K. London: Black Dog, 2010. A beautiful and powerful source for students to examine the recent immigrant experience.
Lorant, Stefan. Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City, 1901-1997. Pittsburgh: Esselmont Books, 1999.
Lum, Karen, Adriel Luis. "Slip of the Tongue";
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8ad6c-aGt0
This is an exemplar film for students, a spoken-word poem written and performed by Adriel Luis.
McSherry, J. Patrice. "The Evolution of the National Security State: The Case of Guatemala", Socialism and Democracy. Spring/Summer 1990. A source outlining U.S. foreign policy in Central America.
Modern Family. (PG 13) "Suddenly Last Summer". Episode 501. Produced by Lloyd-Levitan Productions, 20 th Century Fox Television, 2013. This episode depicts current, mainstream cultural views of immigrants and immigration to the U.S.
Ngai, Mae. "The Strange Career of the Illegal Alien: Immigration Restriction and Deportation Policy in the United States" in Law and History Review Vol. 21, No. 1 Spring 2003 History Cooperative.
Osher,Wendy. "Continental Drift". www.wendyosher.net. This website includes both still photos and a video of Osher's art work that depicts the global assembly line with clothing tags arranged on a fabric map of the world.
Perez, Sonia. "Honduran families deported back to a bleak future". Pittsburgh Post Gazette, July 24, 2014. An interview with Elsa Ramirez, recently deported from U.S.
Preston, Julia. "Migrant women with children account for part of illegal crossing surge in Texas", Pittsburgh Post Gazette, June 17, 2014.
Quershi, Bilal. "Arrivals and Departures: Films Explore the Immigrant Experience", All Things Considered, NPR June 25, 2014. http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/06/25/325579959/immigrant-stories-on-screen
Sanchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Chapter 2 provides a history of Mexican American experience crossing the border as well as the numbers of immigrants, and the labor needs of the American Southwest.
Sassen, Saskia. The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo: Princeton University Press, 1991. See Ch. 8 "Employment and Earnings" and Ch. 9 "Economic Restructuring as Class and Spatial Polarization". Sassen provides excellent data tables of ethnicity, income, and types of jobs.
Strayer, Robert W. Ways of the World. 2 nd ed. Boston/N.Y. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013. This is the textbook Pittsburgh students use in AP World History.
Ueda, Reed. "Immigration in Global Historical Perspective." New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. An article that outlines the history of immigration around the world.
Visual Thinking Strategies from http://vtshome.org/what-is-vts/method-curriculum—2. A good source for more information on this learning strategy.
www.post-gazette.com/odysseys. This is an interactive project that puts a face on immigration in Pittsburgh in 2014 and will be a source for student research.
Alternative films
In this World (R), a 2002 British docu-drama, about two young Afghan refugee boys' journey to London and Zinda Bhaag (NR) (Run for Your Life), a 2013 Pakistani film by Farjad Nabi and Meenu Gaur that portrays the true stories of three young men from Lahore who risk imprisonment, deportation and death due to the illegal nature of the immigration industry.
Brick Lane (PG13), a 2007 film about a Bangladeshi woman immigrant to London. Nazneem struggles with accepting her new life in England and a loveless marriage. When her husband loses his job, and begins to drive a taxi, she takes up piece-work sewing.
Babel (R), a 2006 film directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, is another film organized into three interlocking plots, one of which shows Amelia, a Mexican immigrant housekeeper and caregiver who becomes trapped in the desert trying to cross back into the U.S. after a trip to Tijuana Mexico.
Sin Nombre (R), 2008 directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga about the illegal journey of two teenagers from Honduras and Mexico to California atop trains and over militarized borders.
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