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Commemoration of the Living: A Graffiti Fragment from Ellis Island
- The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 14, Number 1, Winter 2021
- pp. 9-24
- 10.1353/hcy.2021.0010
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
This object lesson analyzes graffiti by a fifteen-year-old boy, Cesare Colosimo, detained at Ellis Island immigration station in 1922. Memory forms the thread of this piece: from Cesare Colosimo's desire to be remembered, as articulated and materialized in the graffiti; to the Colosimo family's memories and keepsakes; to the Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration's shaping of a collective memory of migration.
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