Category Archives: Assignment Instructions

In the next two weeks, we’ll conclude the seminar by discussing a different kind of diversity that results from a different kind of process. Gentrification is a process that generally involves an influx of wealthier residents, changes in the types … Continue reading →

As a group, write up a one-page outline of your current idea(s) for your research paper. This will be similar to a research funding proposal, but less formal. When you’re done, one of your group members should upload the outline … Continue reading →

Now that you have become acquainted with your neighborhood through your documentary project, the task in the second half of the semester is writing a research paper about your neighborhood. In this project, you will use analyze primary source material … Continue reading →

In the second half of the semester, we’re going to explore some darker, more ominous topics related to neighborhood diversity and change: first, we’re going to examine a few cases in which ethnic and racial groups have clashed violently in … Continue reading →

We’re going to be visiting neighborhoods where architectural details and monuments in public plazas and other visual clues tell us about the people who used to live there. Keep an eye out in the next few days for an object … Continue reading →

The first step in this assignment is coming together as a group to decide upon the argument you would like to make (or the story you would like to tell) in your documentary. From now on, all of your film … Continue reading →

  [DUE SUNDAY, MARCH 3 AT 10PM AS A POST IN THE “INTERVIEW FOOTAGE” CATEGORY] The backbone of your documentary is likely to be interview footage. As we discussed in class, letting people tell their stories and the story of … Continue reading →

You may find the Sullivan and Guest texts redundant, as they both set out to briefly describe the controversy surrounding Alejandro Portes’s “ethnic enclave” theory. Feel free to focus on the reading that like better and just skim the other. … Continue reading →