Module 3: The History of Cabo Verdean Immigration within the U.S. Immigration Landscape
Office of English Language Learners, BPS
The Cabo Verdean Center for Applied Research
Ronald Barboza, Historian, Photographer
Ambrizeth Lima, Ed.D.
December 3, 2020
Kartinha (Lura): Lura - So Um Cartinha
Enkemenda de Terra: artinhahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjO7J4L8WJI
Introductions via Chat
Please rename yourself by grade/content.
Strategy: Setting goals for students
Accommodations: build background
Objectives:
Explore the U.S. Immigration policies through interactive platforms.
Analyze specific Immigration Acts and their impact on immigration to the U.S.
Identify Cabo Verdean immigration within the broader context of U.S. immigration.
Analyze legislation on DACA and Dreamers to inform on paths to immigration
Reflect on the teaching/learning of immigration within classrooms.
Agenda:
What Module 3 Does Not Cover:
Detailed history of Cabo Verde
Detailed presentation of Cabo Verdean culture
Cabo Verdean language
However,
We are willing to have course devoted solely to the Cabo Verdean history/culture. Are you interested?
Meanwhile, we have this recommended book on Cabo Verdean history:
Carling and Batalha: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46msd4.5?refreqid=excelsior%3A6d17d1f2b9b3cc213e17bc2b406214de&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Strategy: Building Background
Accommodations: Visual, auditory
Video-(Mr. Barboza):
Quick Reflection: What did you see?
What questions do you have?
Strategy:
Activating Prior Knowledge
Strategy: Question stems, activating prior knowledge
Accommodation: Choice of question to answer; assistive technology (write or draw)
Pick one question to brainstorm:
Please use JamBoard to respond.
https://jamboard.google.com/d/1Qw3E3JIRuqIqRvNYJZXj-dDxLgK6Dj4qxaPJuGvioYo/edit?usp=sharing
Strategy/Activity: Viewing, reading, writing
Accommodations: Visual, auditory, interactive, assistive technology
Push and Pull Factors: An Interactive Activity:
Compare the push and pull factors to your JamBoard response. How did you do? Please be prepared to share 2 push factors and 2 pull factors in the Chat.
Strategy/Activity: Viewing, reading, writing
Accommodations: Visual, auditory, interactive, assistive technology, specific roles
Breakout Room: (Facilitator, scribe, reporter)
Push and Pull factors for Cabo Verdeans:
Lyrics: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1owCqhfjHoaNIDUh67ycsJ9fWXA_8inVew0q-M6JJtP0/edit
Debrief: (5 minutes)
Connecting the activities to our practice
Breakout Rooms: 5 Minutes
Strategy: Jigsaw
Accommodations: Collaboration, listening, communication, and problem-solving skills.
3. Immigration Data: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/immigration_data/region.htm
facilitator, scribe, reporter
Strategy/Activity: Engagement
Accommodations: Visual, auditory, interactive, assistive technology
Connecting the activities to our practice
Strategy: Map Reading, specific questions, collaborative
Accommodations: realia, visual, interactive, choice
Please Scroll Down To:
U.S. Immigration
Top countries of origin for all foreign-born
people living in the U.S.
Map Skills: https://junior.scholastic.com/issues/2017-18/021918/the-great-immigration-debate.html#1200L
Please choose 3 questions to respond to, based on your analysis of the map. (5 min)
Feel free to pair up with someone else through chat to “discuss.”
Strategy: Activate prior knowledge
Accommodations: Question stems, choice of drawing, writing, anonymity
Courageous Conversations:
Should immigrants be allowed to come to this country? Explain.
Should the number of immigrants entering be limited? Explain.
Should Americans have concerns about new immigrants coming to America? If yes, what might those be?
Are you familiar with any immigration laws? If yes, which and what do they legislate?
JamBoard (Anonymous responses): https://jamboard.google.com/d/1Qw3E3JIRuqIqRvNYJZXj-dDxLgK6Dj4qxaPJuGvioYo/edit?usp=sharing
Strategy: Activate prior knowledge, connect to self, modeling
Accommodations: Visual, interactive, choice
Mr. Barboza’s Ancestors (Modeling):
Where in the timeline, can you place your ancestors? What was happening then, in terms of immigration policies?
U.S. Immigration: Past and Present: Interactive (5 minutes) Timeline-https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1vQpiaHh30KH9Bakpu7pBP7y0uYlR0BUNJOiVPSymrmk&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650
Alternative Exercise:
Please pick one year from the timeline and analyze it. Be ready to discuss it.
Connecting the activities to our practice
The Cabo Verdean Immigration to the U.S.
Ernestina, a gift from Cabo Verde to the U.S.
Immigration is reopened: Post-1965
Video (CELSO) : 3-2-1 Activity:
Name 3 things that you learned.
Name 2 things that you would like to explore more.
Name 1 question that you still have.
Reflection Question: What are the push and pull factors emphasized in this video?
Naturalization Act of 1790
This 1790 Act set the new nation's naturalization procedures. It limited access to U.S. citizenship to white immigrants—in effect, to people from Western Europe—who had resided in the U.S. at least two years and their children under 21 years of age. It also granted citizenship to children born abroad to U.S. citizens.
How does this immigration act affect immigration for non-whites?
How did it all begin?
1790 American Whalers make stops in Cabo Verde.
1818 The U.S. establishes a US Consulate in Cabo Verde.
1825-1875 An average of 100 U.S. whaling ships per year stop in CVI.
1832 Charles Darwin Visits Cabo Verde.
1840 New Bedford is one of wealthiest cities in world because of whaling.
1851 -1879 Three hundred & thirty-eight American vessels stopped for salt in Cabo Verde.
The Whaling Industry (Whaling)-Video)-Text-Find one
Our own Ellis Island-New Bedford-
Whaling Video: Throwback Thursday: Whalers and Packet Traders - Cape Verdeans and the Blackstone Valley
3-2-1 Activity:
Name 3 things that you learned.
Name 2 things that you would like to explore more.
Name 1 question that you still have.
How did it all begin?
1857 New Bedford has 329 Whaling Vessels.
1860 20 % of whaling crews are made up of Cabo Verdeans.
1860 Passengers begin to arrive from Cabo Verde.
1861 The African Squadron was a unit of the United States Navy that operated from 1819 to 1861 to suppress the slave trade along the coast of West Africa. However, the term was often ascribed generally to anti-slavery operations during the period leading up to the American Civil War.
1880 35 % of whaling crews are made up of Cabo Verdeans.
1892 Antonio Coelho is the first Cabo Verdean to purchase a vessel. The Nellie Mae sails from Providence to Brava.
The Whaling Industry (Whaling)-Video)-Text-Find one
Our own Ellis Island-New Bedford-
3-2-1 Activity:
Name 3 things that you learned.
Name 2 things that you would like to explore more.
Name 1 question that you still have.
Immigration Act of 1790:
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)/ 1790 Naturalization
Reflection Question: How do these Immigration Acts impact non-White immigration?
1901 Packet Ship "Bryton" arrives from Brava with 100 passengers.
1903 Vera Cruz VII runs into trouble off North Carolina with 435 passengers aboard.
1914 Savoia arrives from Cabo Verde with 155 passengers and 28 crew members.
1918 Joseph Monte Monteiro is wounded in WWI and is awarded a purple heart in 1935.
1924 Wanderer’s last whaling voyage; it crashes one day after sailing.
1933 Belmira Nunes receives a Master degree at NYU.
1935 Seamen's Memorial Scholarship Fund established sinking of Lightship mostly CV Crew
1945 Albert Rose is killed in Italy member of 366 Infantry during WWII.
1951 Mildred Almeida is crowned Miss Massachusetts.
1956 PAIGC is established by Amilcar Cabral and others.
1956 Paul Gonsalves saxophonist with Duke Ellington Band gives historic performance.
1962 Norman Araujo receives doctorate Harvard Univ on Cape Verdean Literature.
1964 Ernestina arrives in New Bedford last commercial voyage to America.
rs impact the Cabo Verdean immigration to the U.S.? Why?
1969 Manuel T. Neves publishes newspaper "Cape Verdean News."
1970 Amilcar Cabral visits US and meets with Civil Rights Leaders.
1975 The Republic of Cabo Verde Celebrates Independence, 5th of July.
1975 Raymond Almeida establishes Tchuba, CV American Committee for CV.
1975 Att. Veiga, Roy Teixeira & Antonio Cardoso gather to declare independence in exile.
1976 Judge George N. Leighton becomes a Federal Court Judge.
1995 Cabo Verde is celebrated at the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife in
Washington, DC in July.
1996 CV sends athletes to Atlanta and enters the Olympics for the first time.
1998 First Cabo Verdean Film Festival was held in New Bedford April 17-25.
Reflection Question: What do you notice? What questions do you have?
rs impact the Cabo Verdean immigration to the U.S.? Why?
Passenger List from 1800s-1914 (Mr. Barboza)
Immigration Act of 1921-24
Reflection Question: How did this Act impact immigration from certain European regions?
Immigration Act of 1965
Reflection Question: How did this Act impact immigration from Cabo Verde?
Cranberry Bogs:
Video Interviewing: Domingos Fernandes
3-2-1 Activity:
Name 3 things that you learned.
Name 2 things that you would like to explore more.
Name 1 question that you still have.
DREAMER: Thiago Heilman: Thiago was born in Brazil in 1984. In April 1996, his family came to New York and he stayed in the U.S. to continue his education after his family returned to Brazil. Thiago obtained his first U.S. legal documents and enrolled in college in 2012, when the Obama administration created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. http://immigrants.mndigital.org/exhibits/show/immigrantstories-exhibit/item/573
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PATH to CITIZENSHIP
CONFIDENTIALITY in the classroom
Reflection Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FeqtqQDgktmrGLxw01nyK8SKGGiBGFuYbLRJyOkfkmE/edit?usp=sharing