COURSE OUTLINE
Introduction, Gentrification, Williamsburg and Chinatown
Week 1 Feb 2 and Feb 4 Introduction
Readings: “New Retail Capital and Neighborhood Change”, Zukin et al
Assignments: Feb 4 Talks: Joe Salvo Talk@ John Jay College 6-8pm; Fresh off the Boat @The Circle NYC 8pm
Take CITI online Human Subjects Research course – certificates due 2/18 http://www.citiprogram.org/
In Class: -Course overview; discuss documentary project; introduction – your Family Immigration History; Tech logistics
Week 2 Feb 9 Gentrification
Readings: “Rethink your Public Space: Community Events in Gentrified Brooklyn”, Martucci
“Tracing Three Centuries of Williamsburg’s Bedford Avenue”, Curbed
“Gentrification and the Nature of Work: Exploring the Links in Williamsburg, Brooklyn”, Curran
Optional: New York Times series on Luxury Real Estate; Chinese Im/migration to Long Island; New Yorker Inequality Subway Map
Assignments: Bring 2 interesting points on Joe Salvo’s or FOB events; Bring 2 interesting questions/opinions from readings
In Class: Discuss Gentrification and the events; Bring in 2 questions/opinions on how you would study these two neighborhoods, Discuss Oral History project
Week 3 Wed Feb 18 (no class); Feb 21 Tour of Williamsburg 11am
Readings: “In Chinatown, All Sojourners can Feel Hua”, New York Times
“Theory of Gentrification”, Neil Smith
Assignments: Take notes and pictures and film on tour, Post on class web page who you have found to interview for Oral History project,
Email CITI certificates to me.
In Class: No class on 2/18
Week 4 Feb 23
Readings:
Assignments: “Chinatown Then and Now”, AALDEF
Make up 5 questions you would use in your oral history interview
In Class: Bring in 2 questions/opinions on why we need Human Subjects Research training ;
Discuss Research ethics and: How to study neighborhoods?; What do you need for a 5-10 documentary film?; Sign up for Man Chinatown or Williamsburg; discuss Williamsburg – Sara
————I’ll be adding more and adjusting readings depending on how the class is going———-
Week 5 Mar 2
Readings: Chin, SW ch 1-4
Assignments: Post Archival Research of Chinatowns and Williamsburg
Review map of the Chinatown and Williamsburg
In Class: Discuss how and what we need to do to make a documentary including archival work
Bring 2 questions or comments each on readings to discuss
Week 6 Mar 9
Readings: Chin, SW ch 5-9; Chin, Moving On
Assignments: Oral History due
In Class: Bring 2 questions or comments each on readings to discuss
Immigration and Migration to New York City
Week 7 Mar 14 11-12:15 tour; Mar 16
Readings: Chinatown Partnership Website
“Ask about the Gentrification of Chinatown”, New York Times
“Seneca Village and Little Africa”
WOS pg 47-71; 106-112; 127-139; 150-157; 160-164; 170-171; 185; 192; 198; 214; 246-252; 260-267
Assignments: Post comments and questions on readings
In Class: Bring 2 questions or comments each on readings to discuss
Week 8 Mar 23
Readings: WOS 276-280;319-327; 340-345; 356-364; 379-381; 389-393;407-412; 419-421;437-440;
Assignments: Post neighborhood short film clips
“Changing Face of Harlem”
El Barrio Tours
In Class: Bring 2 questions or comments each on readings to discuss
Week 9 Mar 30
Readings: WOS 450-451;457-459;469-470; 472-477;486-488;491-494;512-515; 527-543; 547-549
Assignments: Oral History Due; Post short summary of Oral History interview
In Class: Bring 2 questions or comments each on readings to discuss
SPRING BREAK (Apr 6) – READ THE PARTNER TRACK
Week 10 Apr 13 AND Apr 15 Helen Wan, author of the Partner Track; Roosevelt house 4:30-6-00
Readings: “Seneca Village and Little Africa:Two African American Communities in Antebellum New York City”, Wall et al
Assignments:
In Class: Bring 2 questions or comments each on readings to discuss
Week 11 Apr 20
Readings: EI ch 1, pp. 36-47; 70-89, pp. 108-123; 142-9
Assignments:
In Class: Bring 2 questions or comments each on readings to discuss
Week 12 Apr 27
Readings: EI pp. 48-69; pp. 169-176, 188-196, 231-234
Assignments:
In Class: Bring 2 questions or comments each on readings to discuss
Week 13 May 4
Readings: EI pp. 74-78, 89-107; 123-141; 176-187; 196-238
Assignments:
In Class: Bring 2 questions or comments each on readings to discuss
Show documentaries
Questions for the Future
Week 14 May 11
Readings:; Becoming New Yorkers: Chap 1 Worlds of the Second Generation pp 1-20 & Conclusion pp 393-404 by
Kasinitz, Mollenkopf, and Waters; Stereotype Threat article, and Tuan (in Course Doc)
Assignments: Group papers and documentary due
In Class: Bring 2 questions or comments each on readings to discuss
Show documentaries
Week 15: Group showing/end of year party all Hunter Macaulay
May 18 Final Due, Group Documentary Presentation
