Seminar 2 Encyclopedia

Professor: Brendan O’Malley
ITF: Jenny Kijowski
Campus: Brooklyn College
URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/bcimmigrantexperience/

The students’ mission statement is as follows: “”To chronicle the growth and development of Brooklyn College as an institution, through the lens of the immigrant experience there.

This is done through:

1) Documenting immigrant experiences there through oral history accounts,

2) Analyzing the extent to which the history of New York has shaped the immigrant experience at Brooklyn College, and

3) Analyzing the role that immigrants have played in shaping the Brooklyn College experience.

Professor: Margaret Chin
ITF: Jesse Goldstein
Campus: Hunter
URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/mchin2012/

This site highlights four different neighborhoods with large Asian populations in New York City. Each neighborhood is evaluated according to five different dimensions, and the resulting information has been woven into an integrated design conceptualized and implemented by students (with a little ITF support). It is intended to provide a general introduction to these neighborhoods, their similarities and differences.

Trailblazing Through Greenwich Village

Professor: Bernadette McCauley
ITF: Fiona Lee
Campus: Hunter

This website was created by Macaulay Honors students at Hunter College as part of their first-year seminar, The Peopling of New York, taught by Professor Bernadette McCauley. As part of their neighborhood study of Greenwich Village, each student conducted an individual investigation on a topic of their choice and produced a documented research paper which presented their findings. For the website project, the class chose to present their research papers as news articles, organized in three different sections: People; Culture; and Politics & Controversies.

Prof De’s Peopling of New York Site

Professor: Prabal De
ITF: John Boy
URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/de2012

This is a class site created by Macaulay Honors College students in the course of a seminar on The Peopling of New York City with Professor Prabal De at City College during the spring 2012 term.

Our aim is to explore a variety of current and historical issues in immigration in New York City, in the United States, and in our own lives. We engaged with these issues in a number of ways:

Our blogs consist of short essays: The Immigration Nation explores issues surrounding immigration to the United States through statistical data and documentary films, while Around New York takes a closer look at New York City’s immigrant communities through reflections on the Tenement Museum and an analysis of U.S. Census data at the neighborhood level.

Our Immigrant Food page features videos that provide unique culinary insight into New York City’s immigrant communities.

Exploring Diversity in Jackson Heights

JacksonSights compiles historical and empirical studies of Jackson Heights in Queens. Aiming at providing an overview of the diversity found within Jackson Heights, the site is divided into four different sections: history, religion, food, and fashion. Information has been gleaned from on-site excursions, personal interviews, mini-ethnographic studies, and scholarly research materials. In addition to representing the culmination of the class’s exploration, this site hopes to share gained insights and to transform into learning to appreciate the hardships, the triumphs, and the rich heritages offered by the people of New York City.

Peopling New York City and Its Neighborhoods

This is the course site of a Macaulay Honors College / Hunter College CUNY seminar that explores perspectives on urban ethnography with an emphasis on New York City – including specifically: the Brooklyn neighborhood of Greenpoint Williamsburg, the Morningside Heights Harlem neighborhood and Greenwich Village on the topic of lgbtq space. We also pay attention to the emergence of different kinds of social movements in comparative urban contexts in Europe, Africa and elsewhere. Questions of citizenship, ethnicity, race and poverty will be discussed within an analysis of increasing inequality precipitated by the ongoing global transformation of work and the restructuring of contemporary cities. The course was taught by Dr. Ida Susser.

Dr Cho's The Peopling of New York

Professor: Grace Cho
ITF: Kamili Posey
Campus: Staten Island
URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/mitchell2012/

This website is a catalogue of Professor Cho’s Seminar 2 students’ food and culture expedition in four New York City neighborhoods: Jackson Heights, Queens; Tompkinsville, Staten Island; Brighton Beach, Brooklyn; and Lower East Side, Manhattan. The students conducted ethnographic research on each neighborhood with an eye towards its respective history, demographic makeup, immigrant traditions, and food cultures. They did this while also balancing—and in some cases, incorporating—their own firsthand experiences as observers and/or participants.

Dr. Scott's The Peopling of New York

Professor: Ellen Scott
ITF: Soniya Munshi
Campus: Queens
URL: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/peoplingnycwebsiteproject/

Dr. Ellen Scott’s course at Queens Colleges used media (films, radio shows, and television shows) to elucidate various (im)migrant experiences in New York City and to grant volume to voices from the margins. The theme of this course centered on how different ethnic and racial groups have formed and fashioned their identities around this unique metropolis. The class created a website that contains a series of selected or created media fragments: a frame, single-shot scene, image or sound that represents an important aspect or characteristic of ethnic New York. Accompanying these pieces of media are short, creative reflection about why this fragment was chosen and why it is significant to New York’s ethnic imaginary.