Monthly Archives: April 2017
Zooming Out, Zooming In
For the Oral History project, my partner Amanda and I focused all of our interviews in Brooklyn, in particular, the Bay Parkway and 86th Street area. Playing with the Social Explorer, I set the the time scale all the way … Continue reading
Week 9 Reading Response
The degree of government interference with the societal structure of ethnic enclaves continues to be a difficult subject of matter to discuss. You can’t please everyone but you should definitely work to make every citizen happy if not content with … Continue reading
Willets Point
During high school summers, I would often take the 7 train to Mets-Willets Point. I would get off the train and walk across the board walk to the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, where I attended tennis camp. It … Continue reading
Zooming In, Zooming Out
From well-dressed residents idyllically walking their purebred dogs to the superlative customer service Joanne and I were received with at local businesses, Court Street in Carroll Gardens in many ways reminded me of the Upper East Side. Nonetheless, the neighborhood … Continue reading
Zooming In, Zooming Out
Thyme Natural Market is located on 8122 Lefferts Blvd in Kew Gardens. In examining the neighborhood, I examined demographic data from the last five years and census data from 1980. In both cases, I looked at tracts 134, 136, 138, … Continue reading
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Zooming In, Zooming Out
During our second round of interviews, Ariane and I decided to focus on businesses in Bayside. We interviewed her dad who worked at K.H. Chong’s Martial Arts Academy, located near Springfield Blvd. in Bayside. Using Social Explorer, I researched many … Continue reading
Reading Response
When reading excerpts of God in Chinatown by Kenneth J. Guest, the enclave model that Portes and Bach suggested seemed too optimistic. For example, they spoke about two waves of immigrants; the first wave is made up of entrepreneurs who … Continue reading
Ethnic Enclaves
In Guest’s “God in Chinatown”, Portes and Bach describe the function of ethnic enclaves as a method to “utilize networks of ethnic solidarity to mobilize needed cultural or social capital”, and the way that ethnic enclaves are capable of generating … Continue reading
Enclaves, Eyesores, and the Willets Point Repair Shop
Guest underscores street-by-street observation as an ideal means of data collection within ethnic enclaves particularly within the Chinese community of New York City. Distinct from the institutionalized position of religion in Western societies, religion in China is intertwined into the … Continue reading
