Explore histories of migration, citizenship and belonging in Germany and the U.S. over the centuries.
Published in 1959, Paule Marshall’s ,[object Object],, Brownstones tells the coming-of-age story of second-generation immigrant, Selina Boyce, who struggles to forge an identity that reconciles her Bajan roots and American surroundings. Set in Brooklyn, New York during the Great Depression and World War II, the novel depicts the efforts of Selina and her parents to overcome poverty and surmount racism. Marshall’s novel draws attention to the roughly 300,000 individuals who fled plantation colonies in the Southern Americas during the first decades of the twentieth century for the United States.
