The American Tapestry (2000)
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Synopsis of The American Tapestry
Gregory Nava weaves together a series of first hand accounts of the immigrant experience in America for this emotionally powerful, unabashedly-patriotic documentary. Polish Jew Murray Schneider recalls the exultant joy he felt when he was finally reuniting with his family in Ellis Island, while Chinese immigrant Li Keng Wong remembers being forced to lie about his ethnicity in order to circumvent America's draconian anti-Chinese immigration laws. Janie Chatman recalls migrating from her hometown in Alabama (where her former slave father was born) to Chicago in 1940, looking for an escape to the racism and segregation in the South. The final profile concerns the plight of illegal immigrant Eva Canseco, who flees her squalid shanty in Tijuana for a shot at the good life in California. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Director(s):
- Gregory Nava
- Producer(s):
- Barbara Martinez-Jitner, Gregory Nava
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