Tenement talk: what does it mean to be an American?
The Tenement Museum hosts a talk exploring American identity through the lens of immigration history and lived experience.
Date & Time at 6:30 PM EST
Location Tenement Museum New York, US
Organizer Tenement Museum
Why we picked this
The Tenement Museum is one of the few places in New York where questions about American identity feel grounded in actual lives rather than abstractions. This one takes on the biggest question directly.
The Tenement Museum’s ongoing Tenement Talk series tackles the question that sits beneath every immigration debate, every citizenship ceremony, and every cultural argument in America: what does it actually mean to be an American?
Grounded in the museum’s extraordinary archive of immigrant stories from the Lower East Side, this talk uses the specific to illuminate the universal, drawing lines between 19th-century tenement dwellers and today’s conversations about belonging, identity, and national character.
Available in person and virtually.