February 8th Readings
Horsman, “Race and Manifest Destiny”
Morrison, “Playing in the Dark”
Kasinitz.etal, “BecomingAmerican, Becoming New Yorkers”
Walzer-What Does it Mean to be an American”
Gerstle, “Liberty, Coercion, and the Making of Americans”
February 15th Readings:
Binder.Reimers, Chapter 1
Leslie Harris, In the Shadow of Slavery, Ch. 1 (Slaves in Colonial New York)
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/qc/docDetail.action?docID=10397744
Thelma Foote, Black and White Manhattan, Ch. 5
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/qc/docDetail.action?docID=10142435
March 8th Readings:
Jennifer Lee, “Entrepreneurship and Business Development Among African Americans, Koreans, and Jews: Exploring Some Structural Differences” in Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York, Edited by Cordero-Guzman, Smith, & Grosfoguel Lee
Margaret M. Chin, “When Coethnic Assets Become Liabilities: Mexican, Ecuadorian, and Chinese Garment Workers in NYC” in Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York, Edited by Cordero-Guzman, Smith, & Grosfoguel Chin
April 5th Readings:
Vilna Bashi Bobb, “Neither Ignorance nor Bliss: Race, Racism, and the West Indian Immigrant Experience” in Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York, Edited by Cordero-Guzman, Smith, & Grosfoguel Bobb
Johanna Lessinger, “Class, Race, and Success: Two Generations of Indian Americans Confront the American Dream,” in Migration, Transnationalization, & Race Lessinger
May 10:
