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Virtual Tenement Talk – Beautiful Country
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Free. While this program is free, you can donate to support future programming from the Tenement Museum following this link: https://www.tenement.org/donate-virtual-programs/Dates & Times
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This is a virtual event hosted on YouTube Live. It its recommended that you log on to the event at least 5 minutes prior to the event start time.
Description
Join us on YouTube Live for a live Tenement Talk with Qian Julie Wang author of Beautiful Country in conversation with journalist and Glamour books editor Elisabeth Egan, live-streamed from the museum’s recreated 20th-century garment factory.
In Beautiful Country, Wang shares a poignant and necessary memoir of her experiences as an undocumented child in 1990s. Tracing her life from second grade to middle school, from Zhong Gui, China to Brooklyn, Wang gives us intimate memories of her early years living on the margins. As she writes, “The Chinese refer to being undocumented colloquially as ‘hei’: being in the dark, being blacked out. And aptly so, because we spent those years shrouded in darkness while wrestling with hope and dignity.” As her parents work jobs in factories, including a garment factory, Qian Julie navigates school, the diversity of Chinese New Yorkers, and her family’s immigration status. In 2016, she was inspired to write her story, resulting in this unique memoir of her perspectives over time.
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