Elusive Citizenship ART / Individual Artists / General celebrated for two hundred years

celebrated for two hundred years for its purported healing properties

historical changes to the Canal and the neighborhood that surround it have functioned as a microcosm of the story of Brooklyn’s rapid nineteenth-century growth

that sought to reveal the basic nature of the capitalism of their

workers of color

Elusive Citizenship ART / Individual Artists / General celebrated for two hundred yearsSince the late nineteenth century, federal and state rules governing immigration and naturalization have placed persons of Asian ancestry outside the boundaries of formal membership. A review of leading cases in American constitutional law regarding Asians would suggest that initially, Asian immigrants tended to evade exclusionary laws through deliberate misrepresentations of their identities or through extralegal means. Eventually, many of these