Great job on your presentations! Thanks for all of the yummy treats. A few final reminders and concluding remarks:
First, please make sure you complete the online course evaluations. The written portion is shared only with me but the numbers are shared more widely and are important.
Second, I will hold regular office hours on Monday and will also be around on Wednesday from 3:30-5:30. Please bring your papers. The website should be completed by May 23rd.
Finally, it was a pleasure to have you all as students! I am very proud of the work you accomplished. If you will permit me one last piece of sociology, I’d like to share with you a quote that speaks to the larger objective of our course: “The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in” (James Baldwin). Good luck with finals and keep in touch!
60 East Broadway Despite the new buildings and businesses sprouting up, these buildings are still present in today's Chinatown.
60 East Broadway, New York, NY, United States
Henry Street This is a common sight in Chinatown, where old and new buildings stand side by side, showing that gentrification does not benefit everyone.
Henry Street, Manhattan, NY, United States
Madison Street High rise buildings like this contrast with its surroundings in Chinatown.
Kyra Gaunt recorded Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s talk for us and you can access it here. It’s only sound. If you want to start at the Q&A, it’s about 48:00 minutes in:
As a reminder, we agreed that papers would be due on May 21st. I need a hard copy by 5:30. The site should be complete by May 23rd, which is the end of the final exam period.
“You know, Amy, there’s an expression when we talk about rape culture, for example, that the definition of it is not just the crime, but it’s people who see what’s happening but choose to do nothing. There is a racism culture in the ownership ranks of the NBA. In other words, not every owner is as outward a racist as Donald Sterling, but for decades they have chosen to enable him and look the other way…I think Kareem makes a very good point in that we’re so quick to attack people who say racist things, yet we don’t look at the manifestations of institutionalized racism. I think that’s the great contribution of Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, is that it looks at the prison system, as she puts it, in the “post-racial” society, the way racism manifests itself. And so, we can wag our fingers at Donald Sterling and not look at the institutionalized racism that still exists.”
A follow-up from Monday’s workshop:
First, send your featured image to Ariel and add it to the media library on the neighborhood project site ASAP. Don’t forget to supply a citation and link.
Once you have done that, Ariel will add the image to the home page of the site. This links to a post with that image under the name of your neighborhood. To make this the landing page of your group site, I suggest adding some introductory text and links to your sub-menus. I have done a quick example for you using the Brooklyn Beaches group:
http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/beemanneighborhoods/2014/04/29/brooklyn-beaches/
(Note: this group will need to edit this and replace it with their research and menu items)
Sorry for the recent barrage of emails but I must let you know that I will not have office hours today, 4/28. I’ll be observing another class at that time.
CUNY Student Protests Against Austerity and for Jobs in the 1930s: Applying Lessons from the Past to Demand a Federal Government Works Program in the Present, Tuesday, April 29th, 7 pm, College of Staten Island, Building 1P, Room 120 (Recital Hall).
Remember to bring your laptops and work tomorrow for our class with Amanda.
I will fill you in briefly on Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s visit. His talk was engaging and hilarious as usual. He also led a wonderfully open and honest discussion afterwards. There were a number of people still talking to him so he agreed to move to the sociology conference room and stayed with the group until 4:00! A faculty member may be able to share a sound recording. I’m looking into it.
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