Week 11 –

Neil Smith – The New Urban Frontier (Intro & Chap 1)
Richard Florida – Rise of the Creative Class (Preface & Intro)

Week 10 –

Kim Philips-Fein – Fear City (Intro & Chap 1)

David Harvey – Neoliberalism as Creative Destruction 

Week 9 –

Deborah Wallace & Rodrick Wallace – A Plague on Your Houses (Chapter 2) [after downloading, use Right Click & then Rotate to flip the document]

Jeff Chang – Can’t Stop Won’t Stop (Chapter 4)

from last Week: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor – Race for Profit (Chapter 2)

Week 8 –

Joshua Freeman – Working Class New York (Chapter 9)

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor – Race for Profit (Chapter 2)

Week 7-

Joshua Freeman – Working Class New York  (Chapters 1-3) 
Craig Steven Wilder – A Covenant With Color (Chapter 7)

Week 6 –

Proposal Workshop

Week 5 –

Jacob Riis – How the Other Half Lives (Chap 1; Chap 13)

Annelise Orelick – Common Sense and a Little Fire (Intro; Chap 1)

Week 4 –

Keywords for American Studies – Racialization; Slavery

Leslie M. Harris – In the Shadow of Slavery (Intro; Ch. 1; Ch. 3)

Week 3 –

Patrick Wolfe – Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native
Edwin G. Burrows & Mike Wallace – Gotham (Intro; Chap 1-2)

Week 2 – No Class

Bruce Burgett & Glenn Hendler – Keywords for American Studies (3 Chapters: Culture; Labor; & Nation)