Word: uprootedness
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An authority on American inmigrants, Handlin graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934 and received his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1940. Handlin first book , "Boston Immigrants" won the 1941 Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association, and his "the Uprooted" won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1951. Handlin`s most...
Luck itself is alien to the children ?and adults?of Migrants. Sharecroppers, Mountaineers. Writing about the migrant way of life along the Atlantic seaboard from southern Florida to northern New York, Coles reminds his readers that "even many animals define themselves by where they live, yet we have thousands...
But again, this limited victory has not changed matters much. Harvard continues to view its tenants--and, indeed, most of the people of Cambridge--as chattel to be uprooted and driven out at will. Last spring's dispute over the use of the Treeland site illustrates nicely the arrogant, feudal...
Uprooted from her old house by a spurious urban-renewal scheme in Knoxville, Louvenia had lost the will to live. She was "gone, not even to a major highway but to a cutoff of a cutoff."
A Man Alone. Entire villages were wiped out, and the sodden ground was spotted with bloated corpses and the debris of houses, offices and shops. The port of Paradeep, India's eighth largest, was heavily damaged. Rivers overflowed their banks. Trees were uprooted and countless people were swept away...