{"id":401,"date":"2009-07-13T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=401"},"modified":"2009-07-13T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-13T14:00:16","slug":"state-of-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/07\/13\/state-of-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_402\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-402\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-402\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/italians_class_in_english_small.jpg?w=150\" alt=\"Italian immigrants studying English\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/07\/italians_class_in_english_small.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/07\/italians_class_in_english_small-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/07\/italians_class_in_english_small-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Italian immigrants studying English<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Similar to other states, a significant portion of Connecticut&#8217;s population\u00a0came from somewhere else.\u00a0\u00a0The variety of available employment\u00a0attracted immigrants from all over the world who came, worked,\u00a0stayed and contributed their peice to the state&#8217;s rich\u00a0ethnic mosaic.\u00a0 The resulting mix of traditions, cultures and languages has been documented in several oral history projects beginning with the WPA Federal Writers&#8217; Project in the 1930s,\u00a0continued\u00a0\u00a0in the mid 1970s by the Peoples of Connecticut project at UConn and, more recently, the Waterbury Area Immigrant Oral History Collection.\u00a0 The\u00a0transcripts for the Waterbury collection are available online and\u00a0can be accessed via the finding aid for the collection at \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/findaids\/watbimmig\/MSS20090014.html\">http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/findaids\/watbimmig\/MSS20090014.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related Connecticut WPA era oral histories can be found electronically on the Library of Congress&#8217; American Memory website at <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/wpaintro\/ctcat.html\">http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/wpaintro\/ctcat.html<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0Transcripts of\u00a0the Peoples of Connecticut and WPA oral histories are available in the Reading Room of the Dodd Research Center.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Similar to other states, a significant portion of Connecticut&#8217;s population\u00a0came from somewhere else.\u00a0\u00a0The variety of available employment\u00a0attracted immigrants from all over the world who came, worked,\u00a0stayed and contributed their peice to the state&#8217;s rich\u00a0ethnic mosaic.\u00a0 The resulting mix of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/07\/13\/state-of-immigrants\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}