We will not be meeting on Monday and Wednesday. During that time, you should be working on 3 items:
1) Continue reading about your neighborhoods. By now, you should have a firm grasp on the neighborhood’s history and immigration patterns. Linda Rath is happy to help you find reliable sources. You should also be locating academic studies and archives. Linda gave us a handout with some possibilities and she is happy to meet with you, if you need help. linda.rath@baruch.cuny.edu
2) Take a walking tour of your neighborhood using your background research as a guide. For example, you may have read about a particular building or organization important to the neighborhood’s history. Take a photo of that structure. Talk with some folks in the neighborhood. Use the tutorials Amanda posted to showcase your work. You can create timelines, maps, videos, audio of interviews, etc. Post this work to “Walking Tours” on our course website by March 25th. Be sure to give the name of the neighborhood and everyone in your group. Be ready to discuss your work on March 26th.
3) Read Steinberg, Ethnic Myth Chapter 6 and Steinberg, “Poor Reason.” We will discuss these readings during the second half of our class on March 26th.
I will be in my office on March 19th and March 24th for regular office hours and during our regularly scheduled class time (2:30-3:45). Feel free to stop by (VC 4-271). Enter through Black and Latino Studies. Doors are locked on the Soc/Anthro side.
Amanda will be visiting our class on April 2nd. By then, you should have completed a large portion of your research and be able to show us some of the timelines, maps, videos, etc. that you have created. The final project is a large part of your grade. You will want to work steadily on this project from now until the end of the semester.
Since you are getting two research days now, we can replace April 23rd with the African Burial Ground guest speaker. The guides are unable to give us a walking tour, but they may be able to come to our class. I will keep you posted.
I have updated the course calendar on the syllabus to reflect these changes.
