"The heft of both countries in your fists": Lucy Fitch Perkins's Foreign Twins as Cultural Goodwill Ambassadors

During a period of mass immigration and reactionary nativism, Lucy Fitch Perkins's foreign Twins series employs twins as ambassadors of foreign cultures to celebrate cultural difference within U.S. nationality. This article analyzes how twinship functions symbolically in the series and contextualizes the series in relation to the cultural gifts movement.