Schedule

1.       Monday, January 27 – Introduction to the Class: Understanding the dynamic between the people and the city of New York

Reading:

Roger Cohen. The Question to Belong. New York Times, November 28, 2013. www.nytimes.com/2013/11/29/opinion/cohen-the-quest-to-belong.html?ref=rogercohen&_r=0

Natalie Angier. The changing American family. New York Times.  November 25, 2013. www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/health/families.html

Vivian Yee. At Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Site, Waning Opposition to Prospect of Luxury Towers. New York Times.  October 16, 2013. www.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/nyregion/at-brooklyns-domino-sugar-site-waning-opposition-to-prospect-of-luxury-towers.html

Tuesday, January 27, Seminar 2 Opening Common Event:  6 PM, at John Jay College (59th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues) Joe Salvo, Dynamics of Population Change in New York’s Neighborhood.  This is a required event for students. We will leave from Baruch

2.       Wednesday, January 29  – New York by the numbers: In this class we will solidify the portrait of New York provided by Joe Salvo and reassess the rise and fall of urban populations as context to understanding who lives in NY and how the population has changed across time.

Reading:

Lobo, A. & Salvo, J. “A portrait of New York’s immigrant mélange,” in Foner, N. Ed. One Out of Three. p. 35 – 63.

3.       Monday, February 3 – Our Immigrant Narratives: Setting the Stage: Understanding how people shape the city.

Reading:

Foner, N. “Who they are and why they have come.” From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2000, pp. 9-35. (foner.ellis island to jfk)

Recommended: Foner, N. “Immigrants in New York City in the new millennium.” in Foner, N. Ed. One Out of Three. pp. 1-34.

4.       Wednesday, February 5 – Understanding the Pushes and Pull of the Demographic Changes in the City: Actually, we were not all immigrants to New York: In this class we will begin to explore the beginnings of the city from the Lenape Indians to the Dutch to the British.

Reading:

Frederick Binder and David Reimers. All Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City. Chapter 1, “Multiethnic from the Beginning: New York City, the Colonial and Revolutionary Years.” pp. 1-32. reimer,all nations.chpt1

5.       Monday, February 10 – Understanding the Pushes and Pull of the Demographic Changes in the City: New York in early 19th century; Industrialization and the growth of the 19th century city.

Reading:

Frederick Binder and David Reimers. An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City. Chapter 2, “Dynamic Growth and Diversity: The City and its People, 1789-1880”, pp. 33-58. reimer.all nations.chpt2

Recommended:

Da Costa Nunez, R. & Sribnick, E. The Poor among Us: A History of Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City. New York: White Tiger Press, 2013. Chapter 3, Poor and Homeless Children in Mid-Nineteenth Century New York, p. 55-84.

Wednesday, February 12 – College Closed

Monday, February 17 – College Closed

6.       Wednesday, February 19 – Understanding the Pushes and Pull of the Demographic Changes in the City: New York in the late 19th century: What happened to the Irish, Germans and Jews who immigrated to New York during this period.

Reading:

Frederick Binder and David Reimers. An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City. Chapter 3, “Diversity in Action: Irish and German Immigrants in a Growing City, 1789-1880.” Pp. 59-92.

Recommended:

Da Costa Nunez, R. & Sribnick, E. The Poor among Us: A History of Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City. New York: White Tiger Press, 2013. Chapter 4, “Family poverty in the age of unrest,” pp. 85-118.

7.       Thursday, February 20 (Class follows a Monday Schedule) – The class will attend Color Between the Lines, a play presented by Irondale  at 7:00PM (plan 45 minutes from Baruch) 85 S. Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217 (718 488-9233)

Reading:

http://irondale.org/ColorBetweenTheLines.html

Frederick Binder and David Reimers. An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City. Chapter 4, “Old and New Immigrants in New York City: 1880 to World War I.” pp. 93-113.

Directions to Irondale (The shortest underground connections, the longest walk)

  • Take the 6 train to 14th Street and transfer to the 4 or 5 train
  • Take the 4 or 5 train to Nevins.
  • The walk from the subway is 0.4 mile, 9 minutes:
    • Head southeast on Flatbush Ave toward Livingston St (0.1 mile)
    • Turn left onto Lafayette Ave  (0.3 mile)
    • Turn right onto S Oxford St (95 feet)
  • Street map

8.       Monday, February 24 – Class visit to the Tenement Museum Visit from 5:00 – 7:00 pm: We will meet at 4:10 and leave together so you have a chance to get a snack.

Reading:

Da Costa Nunez, R. & Sribnick, E. The Poor among Us: A History of Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City. New York: White Tiger Press, 2013. Chapter 5, Family Poverty in the Progressive Era, pp. 119-159. costa nunez.poor among us

Recommended:

Frederick Binder and David Reimers. An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City. Chapter 5, Jews and Italians in Greater New York City, 1880 to World War I.” pp.  114-148.

Directions to Tenement Museum, 103 Orchard Street

9.       Wednesday, February 26 – Pulling the first part of the class and introducing the Class Project and the communities that live along the D Train.

Readings:

Clifton Hood. 722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How they Transformed New York. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. Chapter 8, “John Hylan and the IND” pp. 181-213. hood.722miles

Inequality and New York’s Subways. New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/sandbox/business/subway.html

March 1, 2, and 3 – Tech fairs at Macaulay – Students will work on building a more critical and comprehensive view of the value and best practices (and possible negatives) in presenting their work publicly, specifically digitally and on the web.

10.   Monday, March 3 – What is a community? Is it defined by place or relationships?

Reading:

Keller, Suzanne. The Urban Neighborhood: A Sociological Perspective. New York: Random House, 1968. Chapter 1, Neighbors and Neighboring, pp. 19-86. Keller.The Urban Neighborhood

Arun Venugopal. Are ethnic enclaves bad for immigrants? http://www.wnyc.org/story/micropolis-are-ethnic-enclaves-bad-immigrants/

11.   Wednesday, March 5 – Methodologies to be used to for the community studies of the D Train stops; Working with statistical data

Guest Speaker: Elliott Sclar, Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University, “Using Planning Data”

Readings:

New York City: Department of City Planning, http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/census/popdiv.shtml

American Community Survey, http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/census/popacs.shtml

Newest New Yorkers, http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/census/nny.shtml

Census, 2010, New York City, http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/census/demo_tables_2010.shtml

Bring your computer to class!!

12.   Monday, March 10 – Methodologies to be used to for the community studies of the D Train stops: Working with narratives.

Guest Speaker: Mary Marshall Clark, Senior Research Scientist in the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics

Reading:

Myerhoff, Barbara. Number Our Days. New York: Simon and Shuster, 1978. Chapter 1, “So what do you want with us here?” p. 1-39.

13.   Wednesday, March 12 – New York in the early 20th century: What do we know about the city? The Depression, public housing, government services  New York in early 20th century:  What happened to the Blacks and Puerto Ricans who immigrated to New York during this period

Readings:

Gilbert Osofsky. “The Enduring Ghetto.” The Journal of American History, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Sep., 1968), pp. 243-255 Osofsky.The Enduring Ghetto

Ken Jackson. (1969). “Book Review. Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto, Negro New York, 1890–1930. New York: Harper and Row, 1966.” Journal of Social History. 2 (3): 269-272. http://jsh.oxfordjournals.org/content/2/3/269.full.pdf+html

14.   Monday, March 17– New York in the early 20th century: What do we know about the city? The Depression, public housing, government services

Reading:

Nicholas Dagen Bloom. Public Housing that Worked: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008, Introduction, pp. 1-10. bloom.public housing

Frederick Binder and David Reimers. An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City. Chapter 7, A Time of Trial: New Yorkers During the Great Depression and World War II”. P. 176-197 and Chapter 8, “A Better Time: New York City, 1945-1970,” p. 197-224.

Recommended:

Da Costa Nunez, R. & Sribnick, E. The Poor among Us: A History of Family Poverty and Homelessness in New York City. New York: White Tiger Press, 2013. Chapter  7, “Family Poverty in the Age of Deindustrialization.” Pp. 197-235.

15.   Wednesday, March 19 – Immigration Reform sets up the conditions for New York becoming a global city.

Readings:

The Newest New Yorkers: 2013 Edition. NYC Planning, Chapter 6, Legal pathways used by newly admitted immigrants. P. 159-179. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/census/nny2013/chapter6.pdf

Recommended

Massey, D. & Sanchez, M. Brokered Boundaries: Creating Immigrant Identities in Anti-Immigrant Times. NY: Russell Sage Foundation, 2012, Chapter 1, “Constructing Immigrant Identity,” pp. 1-25. massey.brokered boundaries

16.   Monday, March 24– Communities along the D Train: The Dominicans in the Bronx

Reading:

Torres-Saillant, S. & Hernandez, Ramona. “Dominicans: Community, culture and collective identity.” in Foner, N. Ed. One Out of Three. p. 223-245.

17.   Wednesday, March 26 – Communities along the D Train:

Reading:

Smith, R. “Mexican engagement, education, and progress achieved and inhibited.” in Foner, N. Ed. One Out of Three. p.246-266.

18.   Monday, March 31 – Communities along the D Train:

Reading:

Zhou, M. “Chinese: Diverse origins and destinies.” in Foner, N. Ed. One Out of Three. p. 120-147.

19.   Wednesday, April 2 – Communities along the D Train: The Russians in Coney Island

Reading:

Orleck, Annelise. “Soviet Jews: The continuing Russification of Jewish New York.” in Foner, N. Ed. One Out of Three. p. 90-119.

Friday, April 4, Field Trip –

20.   Monday, April 7 – Critical Themes as you think about Immigrant Communities

Readings:

Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf, Mary Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway. Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age. New York: Russell Sage, 2008. Chapter 1, Introduction: Inheriting the City,” pp. 1-24.

Wednesday, April 9 – Work with Owen on the class project

Monday, April 14 – Spring Break

Wednesday April 16 – Spring Break

Monday, April 21 – Spring Break

22.   Wednesday, April 23 – Class Cancelled for Field Trip

23.   Monday, April 28 – Inequality in the City: Economic Inequality

Reading:

Kallick, D. ”Immigration and economic growth in New York City.” in Foner, N. Ed. One Out of Three. p. 64-89.

 24.   Wednesday, April 30 – Inequality in the City: Undocumented New Yorkers

Reading:

On undocumented immigrants, filmed in NYC. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jan/18/dream-act-us-immigration-obama-reform-video

25.   Monday, May 5 – Inequality in the City: Education

Reading:

P. Guarnaccia, et. al. (2013). What Makes the Process of Acculturation Successful: An initial Report of a Study at Rutgers University. http://www.ihhcpar.rutgers.edu/downloads/Acc_Study_Report.pdf

26.   Wednesday, May 7 – Inequality in the City:  Communities respond

Guest Speaker: Sara Cullinane, Staff Attorney, Make the Road

Reading:

Roger Sanjek. Colorful before Color-blind: The Emergence of Multi-racial Politics in Queens, New York City. American Anthropologist. 102(4):762-772 Sanjek.MultiRacial Politics in Queens

Jane McAlevey. “Make the Road New York: Success Through ‘Love and Agitation’” The Nation. June 10-17, 2013. http://www.thenation.com/article/174474/make-road-new-york-success-through-love-and-agitation?page=0,0

Explore the Make the Road website: http://www.maketheroad.org/index.php

27.   Monday, May 12 – Work with Owen on the class project

28.   Wednesday, May 14 – Presentation of Class Web Site: Understanding the communities in New York and how they were shaped by the opportunities opened to us.