June is #ImmigrantHeritageMonth - a look👇at how the foreign-born population of the US ebbed after the Immigration Act of 1924 and went back up after the Immigration Nationality Act of 1965. 
We often talk (correctly) about the story of America as a story of race, but the last now coming on six decades also have been one about the story of immigration - which sometimes overlaps with the story of race narrative but other times exists along side it. 2/
And really both stories need to be told - and grappled with - because both impact who we are as a country today, culturally, politically, even racially and ethnically - you name it. 3/
But sometimes I think we tend to glide past the immigration story because we think we know it - people come here for opportunity, become Americans, assimilate, etc. It can seem simple, almost Schoolhouse Rock. 4/
And, indeed, Schoolhouse Rock did a version of this narrative back in its heyday. 5/
But past is not prologue and the immigration story of last 55+ years is a complicated one - in part because of the way its overlaps with the country’s race story. It’s worth considering with fresh eyes. 6/
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