Becoming American: Promise and Prejudice

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  • Sep 29, 2018

On Saturday, September 29th at 2 PM, join Museum L-A, LPL, and community partners for a 1-hour screening of the film “Welcome to Shelbyville” follow by an hour-long public dialogue moderated by Reza Jalali of the University of Southern Maine. This program will take place in the Library’s Callahan Hall and is free and open to the public.

For more information about “Welcome to Shelbyville,” download the program handout here.

To sign up: Visit https://www.museumla.org/becoming-american, but if you are unable to do so, we still encourage you to attend.

How to prepare:
It is okay to just show up the night of the event, but you can click here to download a handout with a short essay, links to articles, and other info if you’d like to learn something about the topic before you arrive. Reading it can be a nice way to get ready for the event!

What to expect from a public dialogue:
Dialogues are for everyone! They are a way of communicating that invites people with different experiences and perspectives to be part of an open-ended conversation, with the goal of personal and collective learning. Participants in dialogue accept that it is possible for two markedly different perspectives to coexist and that it is not necessary to be entirely correct or entirely wrong.

NOTE: The films and discussion will be in English. If you or anyone you know would like to participate through a translator, please let us know and we will do our best to try to match you with a community volunteer!

This film screening is part of a series of events taking place during the Fall of 2018. Click here for more information on these.

If you have any questions, please contact Kate Webber at kwebber@museumla.org or 207-333-3881.

Becoming American is a project of City Lore in collaboration with the Immigration and Ethnic History Society and the International Coalition of the Sites of Conscience. The project has been made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor.