In-class Presentation List
(You are responsible for the readings listed beneath your name)
February 5
Ayelet Abelow:
- Introduction, pp. 3-25; Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
- “Commercial Expansion and Urban Dissolution,” pp.410-445, Lewis Mumford, The City in History
Andreea Arama:
- Chapter 1, Tyler Anbinder, Five Points
- Chapter 1, Christopher Mele, Selling the Lower East Side
February 14 (THURSDAY)
Serinna Bradfield:
- Steinberg, The Melting Pot and the Color Line”
- Walzer, “What it Means to be an American”
Yaffa Cohen:
- Gerstle, “Liberty, Coercion and Becoming American…”
Gabriella Deane:
- Kasinitz, Philip, Mollenkopf, John, Waters, Mary C., “Becoming American/Becoming New Yorkers: Immigrant Incorporation in a Majority Minority City,” The International Migration Review, Winter 2002, 1020-1036
- Marcuse, Peter, “The Enclave, the Citadel, and the Ghetto: What Has Changed in the Post Fordist U. S. City, Urban Affairs Review 33, 2: 228-264
February 19
Matthew Gomm:
- Chapter 1, Binder & Reimers
- Harris, Chapter 1, “Slaves in Colonial NY”
- Foote, Chapter 5, “Black & White Manhattan”
February 26
Corin Greene:
- Anbinder, Ch. 2, 12, 13
Simranjit Kaur:
- Chapter 1, Foner, From Ellis Island to JFK
- Chapter 2, Mele, Selling the Lower East Side
March 5
Gabrielle Kirschner:
- Chapter 3, Anbinder, Five Points
- Chapter 2, Foner, From Ellis Island to JFK
Amanda Lederman:
- Zhou Min, 2001, “Chinese: Divergent Diversities in Immigrant New York,” in Nancy Foner, Ed., New Immigrants in New York
- Chapter 3, Mele, Selling the Lower East Side
March 12
Evan Lefkovitz:
- Chapter 3 & 4, Foner, From Ellis Island to JFK
- Chapter 4, Anbinder, Five Points
Eugena McCrann:
- Lee, “Entrepreneurship and Business Development among African Americans, Koreans, and Jews: Exploring Some Structural Differences”
- Chin, “When Coethnic Assets Become Liabilities: Mexican, Ecuadorian, and Chinese Garment Workers in New York City”
April 9
Evelyn Michalos:
- Chapter 5, Foner, From Ellis Island to JFK
- Lessinger, “Class, Race, & Success: Two Generations of Indian Americans Confront the American Dream”
Christos Mouzakitis:
- Crowder, Kyle, “Residential Segregation of West Indians in the New York and New Jersey Area: the Role of Race and Ethnicity, International Migration Review, 33
- Chapter 4, Mele, Selling the Lower East Side
April 16
Marilyn Moy:
- Chapter 11, Anbinder, Five Points
- Orsi, “The Religious Boundaries of an Inbetween People: Street Feste and the Problem of the Dark-Skinned Other in Italian Harlem, 1920-1990”
Tzipora Nissan:
- Chapter 5 & 6, Mele, Selling the Lower East Side
April 23
Christopher Pringle:
- Ch. 9, Anbinder, Five Points
- Ch.3 & 6, Rieder, Canarsie
Deborah Watman:
Ch. 7, 8, 9, Mele, Selling the Lower East Side
April 30
Jordan Willner:
- Ch. 6 & 7, Foner, From Ellis Island to JFK
- Lopez, Nancy, “Unraveling the Race-Gender Gap in Education: Second Generation Dominican Men’s High School Experiences,” in Kasinitz, Mollenkopf, and Waters, Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation, Chapter 2, 28-56
