{"id":194,"date":"2010-02-18T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/facesofamerica\/video\/episode-2-becoming-american\/194\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T17:31:13","slug":"episode-2-becoming-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/facesofamerica\/video\/episode-2-becoming-american\/194\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 2: Becoming American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Becoming American<\/strong> explores the many journeys to becoming American that defined the \u201cCentury of Immigration\u201d (1820s \u2013 1924) and transformed the United States from a sleepy agrarian country into a booming industrial power. Stephen Colbert\u2019s Irish great-great-grandfather escaped poverty and religious oppression in Limerick and never looked back, whereas Mario Batali\u2019s great-grandfather, who left the place where his family had lived for centuries, struggled to survive in the quartz mines of Montana. Her Majesty Queen Noor\u2019s Syrian great-grandfather quickly found his footing in New York\u2019s first Arab American community, while Kristi Yamaguchi\u2019s grandfather faced exclusionary laws and racially-defined barriers to citizenship for decades. 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