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...rife with fear and uncertainty. A generation on the decline—Archie’s generation—retreats into an imagined past for comfort, while the next struggles with a seemingly divergent identity. With an acute sense of both the pathos and the humor of the modern immigrant??s lot, Smith crafts a narrative that entertains and evokes and succeeds in both superbly...
...Wyclef’s new single “Fast Car” when it starts with an audio clip from his “Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill),” a subtle reminder that Wyclef’s “Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant?? album is just so good. “Fast Car” has a video game theme and serves partially as an extended ad for the Sony Playstation. Wyclef is a driver in a game played by a little kid, and the graphics are punctuated by floating cartoons...
...vain attempt to make ends meet. While Amir was once the only owner of a Mustang in all of Kabul, he is now reduced to servicing others’ Mustangs from behind the counter of a gas station. These scenes could be vignettes from any twentieth-century immigrant??s life in the U.S., and in this respect the film’s themes strike a slightly more universal note than the particulars of the narrative might suggest.The movie has received a fair amount of attention since the parents of the actor who plays young Hassan requested that...
...Heaven’s in New York” is a moving tribute to Wyclef’s adopted city and is also, fittingly, a musical homecoming. If only the hodge-podge journey of the rest of the album was equally fulfilling. “Memoirs of an Immigrant?? is supposed to speak to the whole world. We’re all immigrants, all refugees, and Wyclef wants us all to get along. Unfortunately, he also wants every single genre of music to co-exist on each of the album’s tracks. Social warrior though...
...Namesake”—about a boy raised by Indian parents in America—opened in movie theaters. The authors stressed that there is no one, all-encompassing Indian immigrant experience. Anand, whose first book “An Indian in Cowboy Country: Stories from an Immigrant??s Life” was published last year, said he was part of an immigrant wave which first arrived in the U.S. to fill jobs vacated by Americans then fighting in the Vietnam War. He spoke about the differences between the experiences of the first wave and that...