Documenting Multiculturalism in the US’s Most Heterogenous ‘Place’: Frederick Wiseman’s In Jackson Heights (2015)

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1 The offices of MRNY are visited four times over the course of the documentary. In addition, the organization appears a fifth time about midway through the documentary in the form of a street protest led by Norma Ureiro, a prominent MRNY-affiliated transgender community organizer.

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Lyell Davies

Lyell Davies is an associate professor of English at the City University of New York. His scholarship focuses on documentary film and social change, public interest media and media activism, and cinematic representations of postcolonial and diasporic subjectivities. A documentarian, his works have aired on US public television and been exhibited at film festivals internationally. He holds a Ph.D. in visual and cultural studies from the University of Rochester.