Peopling of NYC - community

Framing our neighborhood study

Professor Brooks — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:22:49 +0000

Not everyone has commented yet about how we should frame our study, but I am getting a broader sense of people's interests with all the comments you've made. First, I like Deborah's idea about stereotypes very much--it's a good way to capture the difference between outsiders and residents, and it also reflects what we've been studying as a class (Harlem, Chinatown, Little Italy, etc.)--but I am also concerned that outsiders probably won't want to be filmed talking about stereotypes.

Media, Ethnicity, Conflict...

Shelley Jiang — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:48:02 +0000

It is interesting to see how the media had impacted an ethnic group to hate another ethnic group. As we all know, the media has a great impact on our lives. Prior to Koreans coming to the United States, they watched American films that portrayed the lives of African Americans. The films portrayed African Americans as criminals and “gangsters.” Koreans carried these types of images of African Americans with them when they arrived in the United States.

More on racial steering

Professor Brooks — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:43:49 +0000

In order to illuminate this issue, I found a few more recent articles from the NY Times that discuss how "racial steering" works and why it's not simply a realtor taking into account buyers' and renters' assumed preferences:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E2DF1131F932A35756C0A9639C8B63

More on Chinatown's development from Peter Kwong

Professor Brooks — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:09:19 +0000

Last year, Peter Kwong (the author of today's readings) answered reader questions in the New York Times online. I'm posting this link because it helps us understand how the processes he described have shifted since he published his book (1987). For example, he notes that competition from China has almost killed the garment industry in Chinatown. He also discusses the continued gentrification of the area and his belief that Chinatown will eventually cease to exist.

Discrimination and Affirmative Action

Shelley Jiang — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:22:55 +0000

Introduction to our class website

Professor Brooks — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:19:23 +0000

With Ke's permission, I cut and pasted part of the analytical paper she wrote (about the Wong and Orelick articles) and added some detail of my own to create an introduction to our website for outsiders trying to understand the way we've connected these two neighborhoods and the Q Train. Please feel free to make suggestions, changes, etc.:

To Differentiate

Ke Jiang — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:37:15 +0000

This week’s readings were particularly interesting because they focused on the immigrant groups that were not Black but were also not American enough either. The Italians, Irish, Jews, and Puerto Ricans—just like all immigrants to this country—strove to be accepted by Americans. This term American is also intriguing because from this week’s readings as well as past readings, it seems as if “American” is often considered to be synonymous with “whiteness”.

Why do they live there?

Dan Carabas — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:28:50 +0000

"Separate But Equal =/= fair"

Shelley Jiang — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 19:50:36 +0000

Map resource (kind of neat)

Professor Brooks — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:53:26 +0000

A new resource mentioned in this morning's New York Times allows you to look at a map of NYC from above with a satellite view. Of course, that's simply Google Earth, but there's a little bar in the interface that you can move to see the same view in 2006...and in 1924. It's kind of neat to be able to do what's essentially a Google Earth satellite view for 1924, and also very useful to historians. Here's the link:

http://gis.nyc.gov/doitt/nycitymap/