Becoming American: The Literature and Film of Immigration

FAIN: GL-50727-05

National Book Foundation (New York, NY 10016-7801)
Harold Augenbraum (Project Director: March 2005 to August 2005)
Harold Augenbraum (Project Director: August 2005 to October 2008)

Consultation with scholars, representatives from national organizations, and educational programmers about the changing patterns of immigration to the United States.

National Book Foundation, working with scholars of U.S. immigration and humanities related institutions, requests a consultation grant to to develop a national project based in printed literature, film, video, audiobooks, web, and other media about changing patterns of immigration to the United States and how they have helped the country develop. The project will use these consultations to understand the possible scope of the subject matter, participation of various institutions across the United States, and methods, modes and venues for dissemination.