Humanities Homework Help

In Jacob Riis’,”The Mixed Crowd”(1890) from the Primary Source Reader. Riis travelled through the various immigrant neighborhoods in lower Manhattan and provided his own observations. In the second paragraph of “The Mixed Crowd,” Riis argued that the “once unwelcome Irishman” had “taken a hand at opposition, quite as bitter and quite as ineffectual” against the newer immigrants from Italy and Eastern Europe. Please read the entire source carefully and consider the following questions:

• What specific evidence did Riis provide regarding the “opposition” of the Irish to the new immigrants from Italy and Eastern Europe? If we believe, Riis’s argument what do you think explains this behavior of previous immigrants toward the newcomers? Do you think these attitudes are still prevalent?

What I’m looking for is YOUR own interpretation of the primary sources rather than a summary of the sources.

Your post should be a short paragraph (approximately 150-200 words)

Guide questions and reading have been attached below