- Write an assessment Peter Marcuse, “The Enclave, the Citadel, and the Ghetto: What has changed in the Post Fordist U. S. City,” in which you re-evaluate the value of his framework for understanding contemporary New York City in light of your subsequent readings in the course. Draw particularly on the discussions of Chinese and Latino communities in the readings for March 7 and March 14. You may draw upon other readings as well as the class reading responses in constructing your essay.
- Write an assessment of Kasnitz, Mollenkopf, and Waters, “Becoming Americans/Becoming New Yorkers: Immigrant Incorporation in a Majority Minority City” as a framework for understanding the issue of “assimilation” in contemporary New York City in light of your subsequent readings in the course. Draw particularly on Malkin,, “Who’s Behind the Counter…,Foner, From Ellis Island to JFK, Chap. 7.”Portes and Min, “The New Second Generation …,” Butterfield, “We’re Just Black…, Maira, “Nostalgia: Ideology and Performance.” You may also draw upon other readings as well as class reading responses in constructing your essay.
Your assessments should each be a 3 page double-spaced, typed essay constructed in the form of an argument about the usefulness Marcuse’s and Kasnitz, et al’s interpretive frameworks in which you draw upon other materials as evidence for your assessment.
Due, by 2:00 Wed. May 23 2012. Hand in your essays in our class-room in Honors Hall between 1:3 -2:00. You may hand in your essay earlier by putting in my mail box in the Faculty Mail Room of the History Department, Powdermaker 352.,
