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Great points Freda. I probably won’t have time to go into it in class too much, but the great urban parks of New York City (e.g. Central Park) were explicitly intentionally designed in order to “blur”...
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Great Yuri. Enjoying food is universal. (Unless you’re Alec.) This makes food sharing an area where bonds can be formed that might not come as easily in other areas of culture (e.g. music, literature,...
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Missy Elliot? Did somebody watch the Superbowl halftime show? I would have been happier if the whole show had been Missy, but that’s probably a generational thing. The Civil Rights Era tried to...
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“If change were not to happen or if new people were to populate the town then it would never have had “soul” in the first place.” This is such an important point. It cuts to the hidden important...
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What a great post Aniqa! Thank you. In reply to - Aniqa Shah wrote a new post, English is Unavoidable, on the site The Peopling of NYC Before I started school, I only spoke Bangla. My parents were both...
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Great post Christina. I think this third paragraph is both intriguing and slightly problematic. On one hand, I agree with the general idea that the government should permit enclaves to exist when they...
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Yes. So much yes. I remember my first trip to the South, when I was a couple years older than you, thinking, “where has this food been all my life?” Partly because it was good. Like, really bad for you...
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haha. What a great post. I had to think about it for a minute, but I think you’re on the right track. I would substitute the term “ethnic” (retaining the scare quotes) for non-American, because that is...
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Really interesting distinction here. Taking a cultural thing that came from somewhere else and making it American means making it communal and shared, while cultural theft, a closely related tendency,...
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Nice post Japneet. I agree about the second part, and I don’t actually think it’s off-topic at all. Many people who study race in America have observed that whiteness is sort of a default “normative”...
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Great post Japneet – I do think it makes sense to think pretty hard about the nutritional content of “American” foods these days. The truth is that we’d be a healthier nation if we had embraced...
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Hmm… interesting post. I agree with a lot of what you say here. And the NYU example is right on the money. (No pun intended.) But I’m not entirely convinced by the last part – we live in a...
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great post Jennifer. Really nicely done. In reply to - Jennifer Shmukler wrote a new post, A Bloody Melting Pot, on the site The Peopling of NYC As far as history can tell, racial and ethnic difference...
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Really nice post John. When you mentioned Italian and Argentine foods and “natural flavors” that surpass what we get from quintessentially processed American foods, I had this terrible thought maybe...
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Terrific post Katherine! At some point in the future I will have to quote this: “more comfortable now as a mediator between the two cultures, rather than an awkward outlier of both”… Just really well...
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Love this post. I didn’t know about #OscarSoWhite before you wrote about it, but it’s been a growing complaint. As people of color make headways in terms of directing or producing or writing major...
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Another nice post. But the first half and second seem a little bit inconsistent. If the market were permitted to decide which college sports received institutional support and resources, then there...
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This is an outstanding post Megan. Gordon writes about neighborhoods like the Lower East Side, “the self-contained communal life of the immigrant colonies served, then, as a kind of decompression...
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Great post Nazir. Well argued. And I tend to agree that the problem with gentrification might be the process (i.e. how it happens) rather than the loss of something that was inevitably transient to...
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Great post Vivian. A solid argument for protecting “the bare minimum,” even though it’s far from ideal. In reply to - Vivian Zhang wrote a new post, The Bare Minimum, on the site The Peopling of NYC It...
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In the next two weeks, we’ll begin the seminar by discussing a specific kind of diversity that results from gentrification, a process that generally involves an influx of wealthier residents, changes...
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In our second class, we talked about how researchers “zoom in” from statistical overviews of a city or a neighborhood to close observation of small scale settings: a street corner; a park; a church…...
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In our second class, we talked about how researchers “zoom in” from statistical overviews of a city or a neighborhood to close observation of small scale settings: a street corner; a park; a church…...
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This week we start thinking in a more detailed way about assimilation. The Gordon and Gerstle readings define assimilation and put it in historical context, showing how “American” values and social...
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Now that you have become acquainted with your neighborhood, it is time to identify a topic for your group research paper and begin collecting sources. For next week, meet with your research group and...
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Now that you have become acquainted with your neighborhood, it is time to identify a topic for your group research paper and begin collecting sources. For next week, meet with your research group and...
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Now that you have become acquainted with your neighborhood, it is time to identify a topic for your group research paper and begin collecting sources. For next week, meet with your research group and...
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This week we start thinking in a more detailed way about assimilation. The Gordon and Gerstle readings define assimilation and put it in historical context, showing how “American” values and social...
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Under the category “Research Topic,” a delegate from your group should post your description of your research topic, your list of seven sources and two or three map images. Please do this by Sunday...
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Under the category “Research Topic,” a delegate from your group should post your description of your research topic, your list of seven sources and two or three map images. Please do this by Sunday...
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Lots of reading last week and I want you to work hard on your group projects, so read either Orozco or Gabaccia for this week and write a short post (100 words) responding to one or more points (facts,...
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Now that you all have research topics, I’d like you to analyze a primary source that you’ll be using for your paper. Write up a paragraph or two (300 – 500 words) based on your analysis and post it to...
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Now that you all have research topics, I’d like you to analyze a primary source that you’ll be using for your paper. Write up a paragraph or two (300 – 500 words) based on your analysis and post it to...
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Submit your rough draft as an attachment to a post in the Rough Draft category, by 10pm on Sunday, March 23. Then, sign up here for a group meeting with me where you will discuss your draft.
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Submit your rough draft as an attachment to a post in the Rough Draft category, by 10pm on Sunday, March 30. Then, sign up here for a group meeting with me where you will discuss your draft.
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Every student in every class at Hunter who does research directly involving human subjects has to take a short, easy online course. This shouldn’t take more than an hour or two at the most: Register...
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This will create a post introducing you to your classmates and me, and will serve as good practice for posting to the site. Create a new post containing the text of your neighborhood description, your...
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In order to divide you into research/film-making teams, I would like some information on your preferred work partners, if any, and the roles that you might like to perform. Making a film and conducting...
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The following questions are meant to guide your reading and give you a framework for your blog posts, but feel free to a) ignore the questions and respond in a different way to the readings, or b)...
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This week we are starting to talk about actual New York neighborhoods, and we’re beginning with perhaps the most notorious neighborhood in New York City history, the “Five Points.” First, watch the...
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In this first assignment, your group is asked to “zoom in” from the statistical overview of your neighborhood (courtesy of Social Explorer) to close observations of at least three food-related...
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You may find the Sullivan and Guest texts redundant, as they both set out to briefly describe the controversy surrounding Alejandro Portes’s “ethnic enclave” theory. Feel free to focus on the reading...
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For this assignment, you’ll revisit your neighborhood and conduct several interviews about food. You can choose to interview the owners, managers or employees of the restaurants you visited for your...
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After doing the Orozco and Gabbacia readings, reflect on the question that the Gabbacia reading addresses: What, in your opinion, makes a given food “American”? Provide your own answer to this...
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This week we start thinking in a more detailed way about assimilation, the so-called American melting pot, and how both of these concepts are manifested in historical debates over immigrant places of...
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