Timothy Noah is a journalist and author of “The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It” (2012). Currently he is the labor policy editor of “Politco.” Previously he was a contributing writer for MSNBC.com and a senior writer at “Slate.”
In The Great Divergence, Timothy Noah discusses the post-1979 expansion of income inequality in the United States. Here he will examine the specific ways that access to higher education affects, and doesn’t affect, income distribution in the U.S.
This presentation is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the Center for Advanced Study at 333-6729 or cas.illinois.edu
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Jim Barrett (Department of History, University of Illinois) will give a presentation in the CAS Interdisciplinary Initiative Retrospective entitled “How Immigrants became ‘Americans:’ The Case of the Poles” on Monday, October 20, 2014. The presentation starts at noon in the first floor seminar room, Center for Advanced Study, 912 W. Illinois St., Urbana.
The question is one of the oldest in our complex relationship with immigration: How did immigrants, steeped in their old world cultures, gradually and unevenly transform their own identities and begin to think of themselves as “Americans”?. This paper considers the case of the particularly strong and durable Polish American culture from two vantage points that have perhaps not received enough consideration: religion, specifically the role of the Catholic Church, and youth culture – music, dance, and street gangs. Each played a distinctive role in the emergence of a distinct “Polish American” identity by the interwar years.
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