Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion: At the New York Historical Society

This exhibition is dedicated to the long journey of immigration, through which Chinese populations have come in their path towards americanization. The exhibit is composed mainly of nostalgic photographs that portrait the life as it was seen in an eighteenth-century North America, including the specific context of New York as well, not only as a global-country perspective.

The exhibition features objects, as well as photographic images. However, what seems interesting, is how this archive of images proof the cultural changes that Chinese immigrants have gone -and still do- to achieve an 'accepted' level of americanization. From these interesting photographs it is possible to see the early stages of the Chinese newcomers into the United States, and how the culture was starting to assimilate the new environment that was America. The exhibit is directed, mostly, to individuals interested in cultural studies, as well as an archive for Chinese descendants that seek to understand, through images and objects, the journey of their ancestors within North-American history.

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