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Posts by Jane Chu
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A Mariachi Opera? How Two Art Forms Combined to Celebrate the Immigrant StoryThe opera tells a story about a migrant worker from Michoacán in the United States, using the metaphor of migrating monarch butterflies.
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What We Keep: A Single Mother’s Escape from LaosWhen Dr. Palina Louangketh decided to launch the Idaho Museum of International Diaspora in Boise, she already envisioned how the nonprofit would serve the public.
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What We Carry: The Medals of Abiye AbebeHow would you connect to your father’s heritage if you never knew him at all?
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The Happiness Screen: A Korean Daughter’s Story of Pain and HopeWriter Maija Rhee Devine’s byung-poong folding screen has been crucial to her entire seventy-nine years of life.
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