User:Professor Krase - The Peopling of New York City

From The Peopling of New York City

1 Photos of Me
2 Professional Biography
3 Photos from My Research on Im/migration to Global Cities.
4 There to Here
5 Ellis Island Trip
6 House Where I Now Live
7 House Where I Lived until I was Nine Years Old

Photos of Me

This a photo of me (center gesticulating) when I was doing community organizing in Brooklyn neighborhoods in the 1970s

This is photo of me taken by a professional photographer outside my house in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Professional Biography

This is one Version of My Professional Bio- This One I Use for Italian Related Activities

Jerome Krase, Murray Koppelman Professor, and Professor Emeritus, at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York, received a BA in Sociology at Indiana University (1967) and his Ph.D. at New York University (1973). He works as an activist-scholar and serves as a consultant to public and private agencies regarding inter-group relations and other urban community issues. He twice served as chair of the Department of Sociology at Brooklyn College. During the last two decades his interests have expanded into visual, mainly photographic, studies of ethnic and other varieties of urban neighborhood communities. He has written and photographed widely on urban life and culture and has lectured and conducted research on urban and ethnic neighborhoods in the US and abroad. He is also a frequent visitor, researcher, and lecturer to Italy where he has held short-term visiting positions at Universities of Rome, La Sapienza, and Trento and lectured at Bari, Genoa, Padua, Perugia, Pisa, Trieste, and Urbino. Published works include Self and Community in the City (1982), The Melting Pot and Beyond: Italian Americans in the Year 2000 (1988), Ethnicity and Machine Politics (1992), Italian Americans in a Multicultural Society (1994), Indus-try, Labor, Technologies and the Italian American Communi-ties (1997), The Review of Italian American Studies (2000) and Race and Ethnicity in New York City (2005), Italian American Politics (2005), Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World. (2006), The Staten Island Italian American Experience, (2007), and Italian Americans Before the Mass Migration (2007). Recent articles and reviews include: “Seeing Ethnic Succession in Little and Big Italy,” in Encountering Urban Places: Visual and Material Performances in the City, (2007); “Visualizing Ethnic Vernacular Landscapes in American Cities,” in Community and Ecology (2006); “Seeing Ethnic Succession in Little Italy: Change despite Resistance” Modern Italy, (2006); “Little Italies e New Deal; La coalzione rooseveltiana e il voto italo-americano a Filadelfia e Pittsburgh” by Stefano Luconi in Italian Culture. (2005); and “Manuale di sociologia visuale” by Patrizia Faccioli and Giuseppe Losacco. Visual Studies (2005), “The American Italian Historical Association: A View from the Bridge,” Polish American Studies, (2007) “Authentic Little Italy: Che Cos’e? A Photo Essay, “ The Harvard College Journal of Italian American History and Culture, (2007), "La trasformazione delle Little Italy di New YorkCity", Letteratura Italoamericana, QUADERNI del Premio Letterario Giuseppe Acerbi, 2008,and “Scrivere e Riscrivere: Leggere e Rileggere il testo della citta via imagine,” Migrazione e Spazio, CACI di Trieste, 2008. He has exhibited his photographic studies in many real and virtual places and is active in the American Sociological Association, American Italian Historical Association, H-NET Humanities on Line, the International Visual Sociology Association, and the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America. He was Visiting Scholar, Wagner College, for “The Italians of Staten Island Project” (2006); received the Monsignor Gino Baroni Award from Italian Americana (2005); was Past President and Current Board Member of the American Italian Historical Association; Founding Member, Past Vice President, and current Board Member of the American Italian Coalition of Organizations (AMICO); Past Director of the Center for Italian American Studies at Brooklyn College; Associate, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute CUNY; Contributing Writer, USITALIA, I-Italy, and Co-Editor, H-ITAM.

Photos from My Research on Im/migration to Global Cities.

Chinese grocery store in Rome, 1997.

There to Here

These are photos of my grandfather Giralamo Cangelosi who came as a boy to Elizabeth Street in New York City's growing Little Italy in the 1890s. On the left he is with his father in Sicily and the other a photo taken in New York City. I will search the ship manifests on the Ellis Island website to find his family. He died in the 1920s so I never met him. One of his first jobs was digging for the Panama Canal. This is a story I did about a part of life related to a bias crime in New York City in 1989; about a century after he arrived. [1]

This is the Passenger List from Ellis Island for my mother's father Girolamo Cangelosi. The family came from somewhere near the town of Corleone which is near Palermo in Sicily. Here is a Google Satellite Map of Corleone.[2] My grandfather told my mother he lived in a Palace. My mother said he was really a stable boy for a prince.

This is the US Census record of the Cangelosi family on Elizabeth Street in Manhattan.

This is the Passenger List from ellis Island of my father's father Janos Hrascs (John Hrash)

This is the Ship Manifest from Ellis Island for Janos Hrascs. He was on his way to Braddock, Pennsylvania to work in the steel mills and coal mines. As I explained in class my father's father came from Central Europe some time in the late 19th Century and my mother's father came from Sicily about the same time. My mother's family name was Cangelosi and is spelled a number of differnt ways by extensions of the family but all members of her family were consistent in their version. My father's father's name was spelled "Hrasch" in English and no one in the family spelled their name as did my father "Krase." When I researched the families on the Ellis Island website for the Passenger Manfests I found relatively easily my grandfather Girolamo Cangelosi but for my Father's father I had to use the Soundex System which allows you to search for names that "sound like" something. I found him as "Janos Hrascs"