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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: February
Rich vs. Poor
Immigrants came in waves to the United States of America for many reasons, including religious persecution, anti-Semitism, and economic hardship. When they came to New York City, they lived in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a place that came … Continue reading
Posted in February 26, Simranjit Kaur
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High School and the Lower East Side
The scene that Christopher Mele depicts of the Lower East Side reminds me of a large public high school filled with hundreds of students trying to “find themselves”. High school, especially those early years, is a time when teenagers often … Continue reading
Posted in February 26
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Migration: Past and Present. Is America still worth it?
“America, with its expanding industrial economy, job opportunities, and high wages and standard of living” (Foner 21-22) beckoned to immigrants throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Even after over twelve million immigrants passed through New York’s Ellis Island, there is … Continue reading
Posted in Christos Mouzakitis, February 26
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From Ellis Island to JFK: Chap. 1
Despite all the recent news coverage there has been on immigration and the “path to citizenship,” after reading Foner’s “Who They Are and Why They Have Come,” I can safely say that I thought I knew a lot more than … Continue reading
Posted in Amanda Lederman, February 26
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Comparing Immigrants
In today’s liberal New York society, you would be hard pressed to find a person who considers himself open-minded but would admit to being a racist. Yet it is easy to hear people of all ages degrading immigrants, joking about … Continue reading
Posted in Danielle Cohen, February 26
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Educating Slaves
The complex decision that slave owners chose to make in regards to the “acculturation and dependence they wanted of their slaves” intrigued me (Harris 34). Slave owners had to decide whether or not their slaves should receive a religious education … Continue reading
Posted in February 19
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Not The Place I Call Home
Learning about the history of colonial slavery as an elementary school student definitely did not include the picture of New Amsterdam or New York as described by Harris and Foote. My rosy colored image of New York showed the colony … Continue reading
Posted in February 19, Gabrielle Kirschner
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Prejudice in New Amsterdam/NYC
According to Professor Artinian in his class Politics of Revolution, the reason America’s racial tension remains so much more dramatically delineated than other countries is because it was crafted and instituted deliberately by the political and economic elite. Since it … Continue reading
Posted in February 19, Tzipora Nissan
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Why Suppressing the Blacks to Safeguard the Colonists’ Profits Failed
It is often said that, “A man may be worth more than others, and still be worthless.” This assertion introduces an important concept in both Leslie Harris’ “Slaves in Colonial New York,” and Thelma Foote’s “Black and White Manhattan,” regarding … Continue reading
Posted in Christos Mouzakitis, February 19
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Fabrication of Racism
In both Leslie Harris’s In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City and Thelma Foote’s Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in New York City, the issue of white supremacy in colonial times is … Continue reading
Posted in February 19, Jordan Willner
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