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Professor: Dr. Peter Vellon
peter.vellon@qc.cuny.edu
Instructional Technology Fellow: Caroline Erb-Medina
cerb@gc.cuny.edu
Category Archives: April
Changing Actions and Perceptions
In Robert Orsi’s piece, “The Religious Boundaries of an Inbetween People,” Orsi discusses a challenging piece of racism. One man confessed in an autobiography, “it really bugged me when the paddies [white ethnics] called us Puerto Ricans the same names … Continue reading
Posted in April 16, Gabrielle Kirschner
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Southern Italian immigrants and identity
As discussed by Orsi, Southern Italians struggled because of the United States’ binary definition of race. People were categorized by the color of their skin, and for most there were only two options–white or black. Because Southern Italians fell “in … Continue reading
Posted in April 16, Eugena McCrann
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Robert Orsi and the Fiesta
One of the most narrated parts of Italian life in Christ in Concrete was the fiesta. The immigrants were thrilled to be able to eat as much as they wished, to relax, chat, sing and dance with family and friends. … Continue reading
Posted in April 16
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Irony of Italians’ Inbetweeness in Harlem
The Southern Italians were targets of discrimination in their home country and the U.S. Because they were considered outsiders ever since they were born, when a wave of Puerto Rican immigrants resided in Harlem, the Italians did not want to … Continue reading
Posted in April 16
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“The Worst Slum That Ever Was”
Chapter 11 of Tyler Anbinder’s book talks about changes in the slum of Five Points. Some positive changes were made towards improvement in this area. This included new building codes for the tenements and declines in the negative activities associated … Continue reading
Posted in April 16
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The City and Its’ People
The city is always changing. In the book Five Points by Tyler Anbinder, it brings up a specific instance where, in the span of about twenty years, a neighborhood and its’ inhabitants had completely changed. From 1850 to 1870, the … Continue reading
Posted in April 16, Gabriella Deane
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The Ineffective Innovation of Dumbbell Tenements
In this week’s readings in Five Points, I saw one specific story that reminded me of a modern day problem for the lower classes. In the chapter, Anbinder describes how an elevated railway was constructed on the Bowery in 1878. … Continue reading
Posted in April 16, Serinna Bradfield
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Once a Slum, Always a Slum
“If an Irish Rip Van Winkle had left his home in Five Points at the beginning of 1850 and returned twenty years later, he would have been astounded by the changes that had taken place during his absence.” This is … Continue reading
Posted in April 16, Danielle Cohen
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The Worst Slum that Ever Was
Tyler Anbinder discusses in his book Five Points the changes made to Five Points in the post-Civil War era. Demographically, the region was “no longer the most densely populated portion of the city” (343). However, it remained one of the … Continue reading
Posted in April 16, Christos Mouzakitis
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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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