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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 19
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
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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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GABRIELLA DEANE’S “Clearing the Slave Owner’s Conscience”
What I found interesting while reading these articles was the mindset of the people who had slaves. I had always been unclear as to how exactly the settlers in North America had come up with the concept that there were humans … Continue reading
Posted in February 19, Gabriella Deane
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Comments on “Slaves in Colonial NY”
During our class discussion last week, we talked about African Americans being excluded from the melting pot of races that is present in New York, and the Harris reading blatantly states this point and highlights the beginning of racism in … Continue reading
Posted in February 19, Simranjit Kaur
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From the beginning African Americans were excluded from the Melting Pot
While reading these articles, I kept thinking about our discussion in class – how African Americans are excluded from the melting pot. It is evident now that they probably are. Their major disadvantage to being accepted was right from the … Continue reading
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Pluralism and Assimilation, Part 2
Last week, we discussed the concept of the American melting pot and the distinction between pluralism and assimilation. Binder and Reimer’s “All the Nations Under Heaven” also discusses the assimilation of Manhattan’s early immigrants. The ethnic and religious diversity and … Continue reading
Posted in February 19, Serinna Bradfield
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The Construction of the African American Identity
In Thelma Wilis Foote’s Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in New York City, she notes, “According to the Manichean symbolism of darkness and light, whiteness symbolizes moral purity and blackness moral pollution” (Foote 184). This quote … Continue reading
Posted in Evan Lefkovitz, February 19
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