From The Peopling of New York City
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Overview
Here will be a brief overview of the community -- something like, "The Colombian community on Staten Island makes up around x percent of the Latino community and y percent of the total population on Staten Island. The main centers of settlement are in the XXXXX zip code, bounded by A Street, B Street, C Avenue, and Highway D. Immigration of Colombians to Staten Island took off in the 1980s, and the current population is centered around the First Colombian Church on Avenue Q and the local Colombian restaurant, Rinconcito Paisa, located on Forest Avenue. Among well-known Colombians with a connection to Staten Island are soccer player and coach Juan Carlos Osorio, who managed the Staten Island Vipers in the late 1990s; stage actor Yancey Arias, who attended Moore Catholic High School; and international man of mystery, Juan Mafla."
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Demographics
Here, you will insert the paragraph-long demographic overview that you wrote for Source Study #2. Look it over for clarity and edit what needs to be corrected. Your narrative here should be illustrated with tables where appropriate (for simple information), and with images of graphs. To help you with this, here are several table formats and the codes to insert an image.
Then there will be more text, etcetera. I'm trying to fill up the space here so you will see what it actually will look like on the page, but I don't really have anything particular to type. Okay, I think you get the picture, as it were!
Clearly, this is all designed so that you can drone on and on endlessly about the fascinating demographics of your particular community. Remember that you will have to explain here some of the specific struggles you encountered in gathering the demographic information. For instance, this is a good place for the Egyptian, Indian, and Jewish groups to talk about the ways that information is (or isn't) gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau, and what was done to fill in the gaps and make educated estimates.
This is the way that you would make a chart:
Main European ancestries as of 2000 census:
Or like this:
Borough | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2006 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Brooklyn | 17.5 | 23.8 | 29.2 | 37.8 | 37.8 |
Queens | 21.0 | 28.6 | 36.2 | 46.1 | 48.5 |
Manhattan | 20.0 | 24.4 | 25.8 | 29.4 | 28.7 |
Bronx | 15.6 | 18.4 | 22.8 | 29.0 | 31.8 |
Staten Island | 9.0 | 9.8 | 11.8 | 16.4 | 20.9 |
Total | 18.2 | 23.6 | 28.4 | 35.9 | 37.0 |
or this:
New York City compared | |||||
2000 Census Data | New York City | Los Angeles | Chicago | New York State | United States |
Total population | 8,008,278 | 3,694,820 | 2,896,121 | 18,976,457 | 281,421,906 |
Population, percent change, 1990 to 2000 | +9.4% | +6% | +4% | +5.5% | +13.1% |
Population density | 26,403 /sq. mi. | 7,877 /sq. mi. | 12,750 /sq. mi. | 402 /sq. mi. | 80 /sq. mi. |
Median household income (1999) | $38,293 | $36,687 | $38,625 | $43,393 | $41,994 |
Per capita income (1999) | $22,402 | $20,671 | $20,175 | $23,389 | $21,587 |
Bachelor's degree or higher | 27% | 26% | 26% | 27% | 24% |
Foreign born | 36% | 41% | 22% | 20% | 11% |
White | 45% | 47% | 42% | 68% | 75% |
Black | 27% | 11% | 37% | 16% | 12% |
Hispanic (any race) | 27% | 47% | 26% | 15% | 13% |
Asian | 10% | 10% | 4% | 6% | 4% |
If you are unsure about how to make a table or how to convert your Excel graph into a jpg, don't worry; just make a note of what you want to put where, and we will address this with Michael, our technology fellow, on Monday in class.
History
Here you will insert the one-page overview of your group’s experience both in the U.S. and before emigration from their home country that you wrote as part of Source Study #3. You may wish to illustrate this with appropriate images -- be sure to break the text up so that it is not just one dense paragraph.
The People
Here you can insert a brief introduction to your interviews, and then, I think, as we did with the "Ethnic Stages," create a separate page where the interviews will be stored. When we are with Michael again, we'll ask him to create a menu item called something like "Conversations" under which we will list the interview pages. So I'm thinking something like:
Many of the members of the local Colombian population on Staten Island came to New York City in the early 1980s. Then you can insert a brief (paragraph long) summary of what your interview subjects said. When you mention their names, you can link them to the interview pages. So, for instance, I might say, "Juan Mafla came to New York as a child and now attends the Macaulay Honors College at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. Rosa Kelley left behind a career in law in Colombia to come to the College of Staten Island/CUNY's Center for International Service." And those names would each be linked to the interview page.
On the interview page, you will put the narrative account of what your subject has said, written in second-person voice, which you produced as part of your Source Study #5. You will also put the interview footage and images there, although it would be good to have a small image of each of your interviewees here in the "The People" section. Each of those images could also be linked to the interview page.
Ethnic Stages
"Ethnic Stages" refers to the locations on Staten Island or within the community on which people display their community membership and identity. This can mean churches, community centers, specialized stores with products from the home country, restaurants that serve the community's cuisine, or other sorts of institutions.
(To clarify, let's leave that phrase on all of the pages just underneath the "Ethnic Stages" heading for now.)
For the Colombian community, the main ethnic stages in Staten Island are yadda yadda yadda * Rinconcito Paisa, with its "Chiva" bus parked in front.
Readings
Here you will insert the bibliographies of representative scholarly sources which address your community, both at home and in Staten Island that you produced as part of Source Study #3. If there are relevant websites you want to direct readers to, this would be a good place to include them.
For format, refer to the Readings section for the Jewish community's page.
Further Research
See the Jewish community's page for format -- this is a place to list the LOC and keyword terms you identified.