Website Tentative Outlines:
(Listed below are the research/website tasks you indicated you would like to do. You should communicate with each other to co-ordinate your work, working I groups, dividing tasks, a get going on the work – time is running short.
You also may want to look at websites from other campuses and years. These can be accessed through the “Encyclopedia” link resources. DS)
Rawan Shafi – Interview people on the street like the street vendors, other people that sell merchandise on the street, observe the street culture of Jackson Heights.
Ivonna Reda – Interview people near or in place of worship, I could also examine impact of religion or dress (Halal food)
Juliana Daxland – Try on clothing from different cultures and talk to store owners to find out if there’s anything particularly special about what they are selling.
Aamr Quereshi – Investigate restaurants, street vendors of different restauant owners and people in restaurants or on the street.
Aruna Phekoo –interview people, investigate restaurants and/or clothing stores with different cultural clothes.
Karen Paltoo –Investigate clothing stores and different cultural cloths and investigate restaurants with ethnic food.
Reinardh Bukalan – Interview people within the Filipino Neighborhoods (Woodside ?) store owners/residents
Tyler Bianco – Interview storeowners, restaurant owners and street vendors.
Bonnie Rose – Do actual writing on website, brainstorm questions, organize data.
Zohar – Research the history; accumulate data, and organize history tab.
Avichai—Work on the timeline, use infoshare and social explorer to create customized maps based on information, will also do research.
Aislinn Deely – Same as Juliana: stores and clothing culture.
Karissa Caputo – possibly interview Spanish-speaking business people, or Christian churches; artwork/design of website
Jonathan Tepp – Investigate dynamics of grocery stores in Jackson Heights, who they’re marketing to, products, actual clientele, etc.
Tyler Bay – explore different faiths & religions maybe through research or fieldwork ( I get nervous going to new places!) Try and piece together how these different congregations foster diversity or form a new type of identity. Also willing to look into different ethnic businesses and their clientele.
Ashley Palma – interview people, investigate restaurants and small businesses, Christian churches.
Kiran – Interview small businesses, immigrant services.
Readings:
Jackson Heights, New York (Kasinitz et al., Download PDF)
