Readings
Berger, Joseph, The World in a City: Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of New York, available here for purchase.
Foner, Nancy, One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century: available here for purchase.
February 16
Handlin, Oscar, “Chapter 9: Generations”, The Uprooted.
Hoffman, Eva, “Chapter 2: Exile”, Lost in Translation.
Kazin, Alfred, “Chapter 1: From the Subway to the Synagogue”, A Walker in the City.
Moses, Paul, “Introduction”, An Unlikely Union.
Zinsser, William, “Writing English As A Second Language”, The American Scholar.
March 1
Handlin, “Chapter 6: The Ghettos.”
Riis, Jacob, “Preface” & “Introduction”, Dover, How the Other Half Lives.
March 8
Berger, “Crisscrossing Generations on the Lower East Side”, World in a City.
Rasenberger, Jim, “Searching for Charles”, City Section, The New York Times.
Salkin, Allen, “Fading into History”, City Section, The New York Times.
March 15
Berger, “A Fire, Half Hour of Horror”, The New York Times City Room Blog.
Berger, “Clinging and Rebounding in East Harlem”, World in a City.
Rosenblum, Constance, “Chapter 21: Caretakers of a Culture”, Habitats: Privates Lives in the Big City.
March 22
Ellick, Adam, “The Chicken and Rice Man”, More New York Stories.
Foner, Nancy, “Chapter 9: Dominicans: Community, Culture, and Collective Identity”, “Chapter 10: Mexicans: Civic Engagement, Education, and Progress Achieved and Inhibited”, Two Out of Three.
Morales, Ed, “Spanish Harlem on His Mind”, New York Stories: The Best of the City Section.
March 29
Wilkerson, Isabel, “Part One” and “Epilogue”, The Warmth of Other Suns.
April 5
Fernandez, Manny, “Morrisania Melody”, More New York Stories.
Naison, Mark, “Introduction”, Before the Fires: An Oral History of African-American Life from the 1930’s to the 1960’s.
Naison, “Conclusion.”
April 12
Rosenblum, Constance, “Introduction”, Boulevard of Dreams: Heady Times, Heartbreak, and Hope Along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx.
Rosenblum, “Chapter 10: Bends in the Road.”
April 19
Bendiner-Viani, Gabrielle, “Embedding Histories in a Changing Prospect Heights”, Urban Omnibus, October 28, 2015.
Berger, “Shifting Sands on the Grand Concourse”, World in a City.
Suleiman, Osman, “Introduction”, Inventing Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York.
May 3
Foner, Nancy, “Chapter 5: Chinese: Diverse Origins and Destinies”, Two Out of Three.
Knafo, Saki, “Dreams and Desperation on Forsyth Street”, City Section, The New York Times, June 8, 2008.
Rothstein, Edward, “Great Job on the Railroad. Now Go Back to China”, The New York Times, October 2, 2014.
May 10
Porter, Eduardo, “For Immigrants, America Is Still More Welcoming Than Europe”, The New York Times.
May 17
New York City Planning Commission, “Chapter 6: Legal Pathways Used By Newly Admitted Immigrants”, The Newest New Yorkers: Characteristics of The City’s Foreign-Born Population, 2013.
Toobin, Jeffrey, “American Limbo”, The New Yorker, July 27 2015.
Ungar-Sargon, Batya, “Heavy Burdens”, City Limits, December 17, 2015.
Movies, Photos, Pictures and Documents
Whose Barrio?: Please find the movie here.
Jacob Lawrence (painter): images owned by MOMA and Phillips Collection.
Jacob Riis photos from How the Other Half Lives here.
Neighborhood Assignment document
Course Site
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