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)