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Shutting out the sky presents a photo‑documentary portrait of five young immigrants who arrived in New York City from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania. Their photographs and accompanying text trace their daily struggles and hopes as they settled in the Lower East Side, navigating poverty, housing shortages, and the social conditions that shaped urban life during the early twentieth century. The book offers a quiet, human view of the immigrant experience and the realities of the urban poor in a pivotal era of American history.
First publish date: 2003
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Deborah Hopkinson
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