Macaulay Seminar 2: Spring 2016

Author: marissa (Page 3 of 3)

Week 10 Readings – April 4

“A World of Opportunity” February 2007 Report by Center for an Urban Future. Read Part I and Part II

“Bringing Vitality to Main Street” January 2015 Report by Fiscal Policy Institute and Americas Society/Council of the Americas. Read pages 2 – 13

“The Role of Immigrants in the New York City Economy” November 2013 Report by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

“Immigrant Workers and the Minimum Wage in New York City” January 2004 Report by Fiscal Policy Institute.

Week 12 Readings – April 18

Oppenheim, Mark. March 18, 2011. New York Times “Mapping Religious Life in the Five Boroughs, With Shoe Leather and a Web Site.”

Guest, Kenneth. 2003. God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York’s Evolving Immigrant Community. “Walking on Water” Pp. 1-13.

Bakalian, Anny and Mehdi Bozorgmehr. 2009. Backlash 9/11 Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond. “Backlash against Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans.” Pp. 1-31.

Creative New York. June 2015 Report by Center for an Urban Future. Read “Creative Voices from Around the World,” Pp. 32-34.

Immigration: Arts, Culture and Media 2010: A Creative Change Report. August 2010. Report by The Opportunity Agenda. Pp. 5-31.

Week 14 Readings – May 2

Kasinitz, Philip, John H. Mollenkopf, and Mary C. Waters. 2013 “The Next Generation Emerges.” Pp. 267 – 281 in One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Nancy Foner. New York: Columbia University Press

Smith, Robert Courtney. 2013 “Mexicans: Civic Engagement, Education, and Progress Achieved and Inhibited.” Pp. 246 – 266 in One Out of Three: Immigrant New York in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Nancy Foner. New York: Columbia University Press 

Jimenez, Tomas, “Immigrants in the United States: How well are they Integrating into Society?”

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