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    Chapter 1 Immigrants being at home in libraries

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    How the immigrants brought their home to the New York Public Library

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    Author(s)
    Dalbello, Marija
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    The first two decades of the twentieth century were formative for the library services for immigrants being established in the New York Public Library. The library’s literacy and citizenship activities were the grounds for the social transformation by which immigrants would become denizens of New York. This essay interprets the material practices and discursive representations of that period in the library’s institutional records that conveyed sanctioned versions of material culture of books and reading aimed at immigrants and contrasting them to other narratives and moral explanations that exposed the frictions and thresholds by which bodies, books, affects, and senses shaped the library as a place for immigrants and their “lived” use of the library. The language evocative of dirt and pollution brought to books and reading in the immigrant neighborhoods transferred the materiality of the immigrants’ tenement dwellings to the library spaces and reveals a contiguity between the library home and the tenement home.
    Book
    Reading Home Cultures Through Books
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61146
    Keywords
    Books, cultures, anthropology, sociology,home
    DOI
    10.4324/9781003139591-3
    ISBN
    9780367689131, 9780367689162, 9781003139591
    Publisher
    Taylor & Francis
    Publisher website
    https://taylorandfrancis.com/
    Publication date and place
    2022
    Imprint
    Routledge
    Classification
    Social and cultural anthropology
    Anthropology
    Pages
    24
    Public remark
    Funder name: Rutgers University
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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