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Professor: Dr. Peter Vellon
peter.vellon@qc.cuny.edu
Instructional Technology Fellow: Caroline Erb-Medina
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Category Archives: April 9
Race and its fluid definition
Nancy Foner has found that recent immigrants are often described as “non-whites” or “persons of color” instead of the “unquestionably white” immigrants from the Golden Age of Immigration. Though it is true that today’s immigrants are coming from countries different … Continue reading
Posted in April 9, Eugena McCrann
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From Many, One People
In Chapter Five of “From Ellis Island to JFK,” Foner speaks about racial prejudices in New York. She explains that the whites of Western Europe who settled in New York were not accepting of those from Western and Southern Europe. … Continue reading
Posted in April, April 9, Christopher Pringle
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Racial Perceptions
Reading Nancy Foner’s chapter, “The Sting of Prejudice,” I felt a personal connection to the vignette that Foner describes of racial prejudices against Jewish immigrants. I personally have been blessed to grow up without the threat of racial insults being … Continue reading
Posted in April 9, Gabrielle Kirschner
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Racism: Past, Present, and Future
Although racism has always existed, and still exists in this country, it in no way compares to the rampant racism of the past. Racism used to exist between “true” white Americans and European immigrants (like Italians or Jews) who weren’t … Continue reading
Posted in April 9, Jordan Willner
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Imagine
It is not a novel idea that communities change over time. Every community goes through its own unique change that requires its own analysis. Christopher Mele lays out the facts about the Lower East Side and the “downward spiral” that … Continue reading
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Racism in New York City
Any student who has taken an American standardized test, such as an AP or an SAT, will remember being asked which ethnicity he or she was, “for statistical reasons” of course. Really, however, this kind of “question” is deeply rooted … Continue reading
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It’s all in our heads
Imagine if the human race did not have the notion in their heads to think differently of people because of their skin color or where they are from. If everyone were accepting of every person, then we wouldn’t have the … Continue reading
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Race in New York City
It was a cold and windy December afternoon. Two friends and I were walking down 42nd street, drinking in the city’s excitement. I pulled up the hood of my large sweater in an attempt to block out the chill. Just as soon as … Continue reading
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Will It Ever Change?
Apparently, we never learn. Reading the chapter from the book From Ellis Island to JFK by Nancy Foner, it is clearer than ever that people never learn from their mistakes. When the wave of European Jews and the Italians immigrants … Continue reading
Posted in April 9, Gabriella Deane
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The White-Black Divide in NYC
As I perused this week’s readings, I was appalled to come across a disturbing statement from Joe Feagin, which read, “no matter how affluent or influential blacks may be, in public places they cannot escape the stigma of being black.” … Continue reading
Posted in April 9, Evan Lefkovitz
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