MANY NEW AMERICAS: REMEMBERING AND WRITING THE RECENT PAST S PRINGFIELD P UBLIC S CHOOLS / F IVE C OLLEGES TAH P ROGRAM JUNE 24-28, 2013 TONA HANGEN WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON AMERICA’S NEW FACE(S)

“This is the typical day of a relatively typical soul in today's diversified world. I wake up to the sound of my Japanese clock radio, put on a T shirt sent me by an uncle in Nigeria and walk out into the street, past German cars, to my office. Around me are English-language students from Korea, Switzerland and Argentina -- all on this Spanish-named road in this Mediterranean-style town. On TV, I find, the news is in Mandarin; today's baseball game is being broadcast in Korean. For lunch I can walk to a sushi bar, a tandoori palace, a Thai cafe or the newest burrito joint (run by an old Japanese lady). Who am I, I sometimes wonder, the son of Indian parents and a British citizen who spends much of his time in Japan (and is therefore -- what else? -- an American permanent resident)? And where am I? I am, as it happens, in Southern California…” -- Pico Iyer, “The Global Village Finally Arrives,” TIME Dec 2, 1993

“Consider the death of Princess Diana [1997]. This accident involved an English citizen, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashed in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian, who was drunk on Scotch whiskey, followed closely by Italian paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, and finally treated with Brazilian medicines by an American doctor. In this case, even leaving aside the fame of the victims, a mere neighborhood canvass would hardly have completed the forensic picture, as it might have a generation before.” --- Mark Riebling, "The New Paradigm: Merging Law Enforcement and Intelligence Strategies," Center for Policing Terrorism (2006)

“Projects to stop the spread of AIDS have tried to establish protective boundaries... by requiring HIV tests in order to cross national boundaries. The boundaries of nation-states, however, are increasingly permeable by all kinds of flows. Nothing can bring back the hygienic shields of colonial boundaries. The age of globalization is the age of universal contagion.” -- Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire, p. 136.

“It would be easy, seeing all this, to say that the world is moving toward the Raza Cosmica (Cosmic Race), predicted by the Mexican thinker Jose Vasconcelos in the '20s -- a glorious blend of mongrels and mestizos. It may be more relevant to suppose that more and more of the world may come to resemble Hong Kong, a stateless special economic zone full of expats and exiles linked by the lingua franca of English and the global marketplace. Some urbanists already see the world as a grid of 30 or so highly advanced city- regions, or technopoles, all plugged into the same international circuit. “The world will not become America…. But America may still, if only symbolically, be a model for the world. E Pluribus Unum, after all, is on the dollar bill. As Federico Mayor Zaragoza, the director-general of UNESCO, has said, ‘America's main role in the new world order is not as a military superpower, but as a multicultural superpower.’” -- Pico Iyer, “The Global Village Finally Arrives,” TIME Dec 2, 1993

MEAN CENTER OF POPULATION FOR THE U.S., Source:

% CHANGE IN MINORITY POPULATION, Source:

PEOPLE LIVING IN THE US BUT BORN ELSEWHERE 13% of total population13.6% of total population Source: We the Foreign Born, US Census Publication, Sept 1993

HART-CELLER ACT SIGNING, 3 OCTOBER 1965

HART - CELLER ACT SPONSORS Emanuel Celler, D-NY Philip Hart, D-MI cache.net/xc/ jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=E41C9FE5C4AA0A14D3168B34CF1 22BA29AD0290FF93232F6C61EA37C3C115F8AB01E70F2B

FOREIGN-BORN AS % OF POPULATION,

AMERICA’S NEW FACE, CIRCA % Anglo-Saxon 17.5% Middle Eastern 17.5% African 7.5% Asian 35% Southern European 7.5% Hispanic

POPULATION PERCENTAGES BY RACE (ACTUAL + PROJECTED) Source: McDaniel (1995), “The Dynamic Racial Composition of the United States,” 185.

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