Binders and Reimers focus immigration in New York and the types of people that immigrated to New York during different intervals of time. In Chapter Four, he discusses the varieties of different groups who settled in New York because of their country’s socio-economic push factor. Chapter Five was focused mainly on the Jews and Italians who immigrated to New York City, and how completely different these two groups were.
...Yet we are all the same! (Portertenglish website)
Even though I am not great with technology, if I could create a website the front of the home page would consist of multiple pie charts representing immigration. These pie charts (1 pie chart per 25 years) would begin as early as the immigration in New York began till the present. The color of the pie charts will be the color of the skin (or how it was perceived during those times). I would structure the website with different tabs for different ethnic groups on the top of the home page. When you click each group, there will be pictures, and primary source documents of that group representing that group. In other words, the tone of the group will be how they felt being an immigrant, rather than facts in general. For example, if we click the “Slavs” tab, we can read how the Slavs were anti-Semitic, and why they were so. If we click on the “Jews” tab, we can read the abuses they went through not just from the Slavs but from other ethnic groups as well.
I think immigration is a vital point in New York history being that, because of these people and their struggles, it helped shape what the land has become today. Immigration was no doubt a major aspect of New York and what it would ultimately come to be and therefore should be something on the midterm.