Spare Parts (First Year Reading Pick, 2018)

Welcome!

Welcome to the research guide for the First Year Reading Program's 2018 pick, Spare Parts. The information you'll find here will help you better understand the story of Spare Parts and the lives of Oscar, Lorenzo, Cristian, and Luis.

The staff of the Samuel C. Williams Library looks forward to meeting you when you arrive at Stevens in August!

HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE

To help in the understanding of both the life of the students at the center of Spare Parts and Spare Parts itself, the videos below introduce some key topics, including U.S. immigration history and policy and undocumented immigrants. Please watch them and apply what you see and hear to the text of Spare Parts as you read it.

Image source: Macmillan Publishers

Spare Parts at the Library:

FYRP Summer Contest!

The Summer Contest is now closed to new submissions. Thank you to all who entered! The winner will be announced at Orientation on August 23 and displayed or shown at Convocation on August 29.

For more information, see the flyer (click the image to enlarge).

For more on the First Year Reading Program, see:

U.S. Immigration: From 1790 to Today (NPR, May 2018)

Where are the U.S.'s unauthorized immigrants from? (NPR, Sept. 2017)

Immigration Reform 2013: In Las Vegas, Obama Gives Speech on Plan (New York Times, Jan. 2013)

DACA, Explained (Vox, Sept. 2017)

Illegal (Dir. by John X. Carey, 2012)

Georgia's Underground University for Undocumented Students (New Yorker, May 2017)

Undocumented and Underage: The Crisis of Migrant Children (Vice News, Aug. 2014)

How Sanctuary Cities Actually Work (Vox, Apr. 2017)

Why Sanctuary Cities Aren't Safe Under Trump (AJ+ (Al Jazeera), Feb. 2018)