Between cultures : children of immigrants in America
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Between cultures : children of immigrants in America
（Center books on Chicago and environs, v. 4）
Center for American Places in association with Columbia College Chicago, 2004
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As the grandchild of Italian immigrants, photographer Gina J. Grillo has a personal stake in her photographic studies of ethnic and immigrant life in the United States. In Between Cultures, Grillo explores the struggles immigrant children face as they develop their cultural identity in an environment completely new and foreign to them. Following the tradition of the pioneering photographers Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine, Grillo portrays the immigrant experience through children's eyes, unearthing a complex and poignant world. She begins with images of newly arrived immigrant families at O'Hare International Airport during their first few hours in the United States and then follows them through the gates and into Chicago's urban life. With her chronicle of citizenship ceremonies, cultural celebrations, weddings and dances, and other everyday scenes of immigrant life, Grillo captures the crucial elements that shape not only the characters of the children, but also the neighborhoods in which they reside.
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