Dear Colleagues,

The current issue of Museums & Social Issues may be of interest to many of you. Please see table of contents and ordering information below; I will send additional information soon. Thanks for excusing cross-postings.

 
New from Left Coast Press, Inc.:

 
Museums & Social Issues: A Journal of Reflective Discourse

The Immigrant Experience

Edited by Ron Chew

Fall 2008

144 pages; Vol. 3, N. 2

 

Table of Contents

Introduction: Seeing the World Through the Eyes of Immigrants — Ron Chew

Engaging Immigrant Audiences in Museums — Jill K. Stein, Cecilia Garibay, and Kate Wilson

Tempest Tost — Ruth Abrams

Immigrant Voices from America’s Forgotten Gateway: A Model for Civic Engagement — Suzanne Sheriff

Relevance & Social Responsibility in National Forests — Dale Hom

Windows to the World Photo Essay — Meg Luther Lindholm

Exhibit Commentary: Becoming American: Teenagers and Immigration — reviewed by Joan Piper

The New Old Yick Fung Company, Wing Luke Museum: Authenticity and Interpretation in Historic Preservation — Edward Echtle

Book Commentary: New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration by Douglas Massey — reviewed by Stephanie Shestakow

Resources — Andrea Descoteaux Hugg

 

To order this issue, visit our website at: http://www.lcoastpress.com/journal_issue.php?id=109

Journal ISSN: 1559-6893

Issue ISBN: 978-1-59874-804-6

 

ISSUE PRICE: 

Individuals: $25

Museums: $45

Institutions: $75

 

To subscribe to the Museum & Social Issues semi-annual journal, visit our website at http://www.lcoastpress.com/journal.php?id=4

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Stefania R. Van Dyke
Museum Studies and Practice
Left Coast Press, Inc.
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