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Reimagining Essex Street Market, Madeleine M. Crenshaw
Reimagining Essex Street Market, Madeleine M. Crenshaw
Capstones
Reimagining Essex Street Market is a multimedia story highlighting a historic 78-year-old market on the Lower East Side that is moving to a massive mixed-used development. Using, GIFS, text, social video and photo, this project illustrates the historical and cultural significance of the market that has been a staple to the neighborhood and the immigrant communities of the Lower East Side for decades.
https://medium.com/@madeleinecrenshaw/reimagining-essex-street-market-6ebcbb704b25
Brentwood, New York 11717: A Multimedia Ethnographic Study On An Immigrant Town, Ashley Mungo
Brentwood, New York 11717: A Multimedia Ethnographic Study On An Immigrant Town, Ashley Mungo
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Brentwood, New York is a working-class town of about 60,000 situated forty miles east of Manhattan on Long Island. As of the 2010 Census, 68.5 percent of residents are Latino or Hispanic, with 10.7 percent of the overall population living below the federal poverty level. Less than ten percent of the population has obtained a bachelors degree or higher. Street violence, gangs, and overall crime are frequently addressed at community meetings, igniting a fierce debate on immigration within the town that has reached national media, with critics arguing that the exponentially increasing Latino migrant population has caused this crisis.
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