In the 1920s, the United States was changing. By boat and by train, European immigrants and Black migrants arrived in New York trying to achieve the American Dream. And while Jay Gatsby isn’t secretly an immigrant or a migrant, he is metaphorically an immigrant and a migrant.
Join Bobby and Nesha for a conversation with Dr. Caroline Brown about the changing racial and ethnic landscape of America in the 1920s, how Gatsby represents a country in flux, and why we’re still dealing with the racist ideas of Tom Buchanan…100 years later.