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The Peopling of New York City: MHC150 Sec.03
Rm HN C107, Wednesday, 10:10am-12:40pm
Professor Mike Benediktsson
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Author Archives: Sophia
“Ha ha ha, she hums like a bee”
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chZ4lAzC-0g&w=420&h=315] This past weekend I scrapped my first car, the beloved 2001 midnight blue Chevy Malibu, a vehicle bestowed on me by my Dear Grandma Joan a year after I graduated from high school when I was still enjoying … Continue reading
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Red Hook Sources
PRIMARY SOURCES Adams, Mildred. “Red Hook’s Houses: Offer A Challenge.” The New York Times Company. 13 Nov. 1938. Web. 17 April 2013. Donovan, Aaron. “Isolated Brooklyn Area Starts to Awaken.” The New York Times Company. 10 June 2001. Web. 17 … Continue reading
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All Kinds of ‘Other’
Ethnic succession, what Max Herman describes as “the process by which one racial/ethnic group displaces another… from an established residential, occupational, or political niche,” tends to be a hostile undertaking for both the displacers and the displaced (462). While there … Continue reading
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Legendary Storyteller: Diane Wolkstein with Hans Christian Andersen and the Ugly Duckling
Growing up, I spent a lot of time in Central Park; for my most of my life I lived just west of the 81st Street entrance. The other day I heard about a woman, a legend of the park, who … Continue reading
Down or Out in the Dumps
Although the debate over how to approach neighborhoods characterized by poverty and neglect is a complicated and controversial subject, I think the two most important aspects to keep in mind are who will benefit from proposed projects, and when. New … Continue reading
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Meryl Streep as a rabbi in “Angels in America”
I just started the HBO rendition of “Angels in America,” in which Meryl Streep plays a rabbi and gives this amazing sermon for a recently deceased woman, the first in her family to immigrate to America.
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The Immigrant in Hindsight
In the “Rethinking Assimilation” section of his “Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Assimilation But Were Too Afraid To Ask,” Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco explores a very complicated, yet very compelling, issue of immigration. By analyzing the trajectory of social … Continue reading
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Red Hook b-roll
Red Hook B-roll –Sophia Curran, Jonah Greebel & Simon Plutser-Sarno
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Whitewashing and Blackfacing
Last week I read the Gordon and Gerstle pieces alongside an essay called “Black Message/White Envelope: Genre, Authenticity, and Authority in the Antebellum Slave Narrative” by John Sekora. The latter argues that the slave narrative cannot be included in the … Continue reading
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A Melting Pot, a Closed Book and a Bulging Knapsack
In his article “In Queens: A Melting Pot, and a Closed Book,” Adam Ellick completely fails in his portrayal of Jackson Heights, most likely because he was similarly unsuccessful at immersing himself in the neighborhood to begin with. The problem … Continue reading
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