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ANTH 3135 American Urban Experience: Anthropological Perspectives (Paterline): Reference List

The American Urban Experience: Anthropological Perspectives

Reading Citations for Course

Berman, Marshall. "Robert Moses: Expressway World." 1982. In The City Cultures Reader, 297-302. 1st ed. New York, NY: Routledge, 2000. All That's Solid Melts into the Air.

Bonilla, Yarimar, and Jonathan Rosa. "Ferguson: Digital Protest, Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Media in the United States: Ferguson." American Ethnologist 42, no. 1 (2015): 4-17. DOI: amet.12112

Bornstein, Avram. "Institutional Racism, Numbers Management, and Zero‐Tolerance Policing in New York City." North American Dialogue 18, no. 2 (2015): 51-62.

Brodkin, Karen. "How Did Jews Become White Folks?" In Off white : Readings on power, privilege, and resistance. 17-34. Taylor & Francis Group, 2004. ProQuest Ebook Central

Chatman, Michelle Coghill. "Talking About Tally’s Corner: Church Elders Reflect on Race, Place, and Removal in Washington, DC." Transforming Anthropology 25, no. 1 (2017): 35-49.

Checker, Melissa. "Wiped Out by the ‘Greenwave’: Environmental Gentrification and the Paradoxical Politics of Urban Sustainability." City & Society 23, no. 2 (2011): 210-29.

Davis, Mike. "Fortress LA." In In Cities and Society, 267-83. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.

Eisinger, Peter. "The Politics of Bread and Circuses: Building the City for the Visitor Class." Urban Affairs Review 35, no. 3 (2000): 316-33. doi:10.1177/107808740003500302.

Goode, Judith. "How Urban Ethnography Counters Myths about the Poor." In Urban Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City, 279-95. 4th ed. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2002.

Harvey, David. "The Right to the City." New Left Review, no. 53 (September 2008): 23-40.

Hutter, Mark. “Urban Planning.” In Experiencing Cities, 2nd ed., Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2012.

Jacobs, Jane. "The Uses of Sidewalks: Contact." In The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 55-73. New York, NY: Vintage, 1961.

Jones, Camara Phyllis. "Levels of Racism: A Theoretical Framework and a Gardener's Tale." American Journal of Public Health 90, no. 8 (August 2000): 1212-215. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.90.8.1212

Lang, Steve. "Striving for Sustainability on the Waterfront: The Case of Newtown Creek." In The World in Brooklyn: Gentrification, Immigration, and Ethnic Politics in a Global City, 190-210. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2012.

Lewis, Oscar. "The Culture of Poverty." Scientific American 215, no. 4 (October 1966): 19-25.

Longworth, R. C. (2012). Urban America: U.S. Cities in the Global Era. Journal of International Affairs, 65(2), 97–110.

Low, Setha M. "The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear." American Anthropologist 103, no. 1 (2001): 45-58.

Merry, Sally. "Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers." In Urban Life: Readings in the Anthropology of the City, 115-26. 4th ed. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2002

Mitchell, D. (1995). The end of public space? People’s park, definitions of the public, and democracy. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 85(1), 108.

Mullings, Leith. "Resistance and Resilience: The Sojourner Syndrome and the Social Context of Reproduction in Central Harlem." Transforming Anthropology 13, no. 2 (October 2005): 79-91.

O'Neil, Dennis, Palomar College Behavioral Sciences Department. (2014) Cultural Anthropology Tutorials: What is Anthropology?

Rothstein, Richard. (2014, Oct. 15) "The Making of Ferguson Public Policies at the Root of Its Troubles." Economic Policy Institute. Retrieved from: https://www.epi.org/publication/making-ferguson

Silverstein, J., Hannah-Jones, N., In Elliott, M. N., Hughes, J., & New York Times Company. (2019). 1619 project: New York Times magazine [special issue], August 18, 2019.

Smith, Neil. "Class Struggle on Avenue B: The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West." In The New Urban Frontier, 22-46. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996.

Spradley, James P. "Ethnography and Culture." In Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology, 7-14. 11th ed. New York, NY: Pearson Education, 2003.

Stoller, P. (1997), Globalizing Method: The Problems of Doing Ethnography in Transnational Spaces. Anthropology and Humanism, 22: 81-94. https://doi-org.brooklyn.ezproxy.cuny.edu/10.1525/ahu.1997.22.1.81

Susser, Ida. "New Introduction" In Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

Wirth, Louis. "Urbanism as a Way of Life." American Journal of Sociology 44, no. 1 (1938): 1-24. doi:10.1086/217913.

Video Citations for Course

[Atkinson, Craig, Heidi E. Ewing, and Rachel Grady.] Detropia. Oley, Pa: [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, 2012. Available through Alexander Street Press.

[CrashCourse] (2012, Nov. 2) Globalization I - The Upside: Crash Course World History #41 [Video File]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/5SnR-e0S6Ic

[CrashCourse] (2012, Nov. 9) Globalization II - Good or Bad?: Crash Course World History #42 [Video File]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/s_iwrt7D5OA

[Dalsgaard, Andreas M., Jan Gehl, and Signe Byrge. Sorensen. KimStim (Producer)]. (2012). The Human Scale [Video file]. Retrieved from The Docuseek2 Complete Collection: Second Edition database.

[Dean, A. Anderson, K. (Director).] (2012). My Brooklyn [Video file]. New Day Films. Retrieved from Kanopy https://brooklyn.kanopy.com/video/my-brooklyn

[Democracy Now] (2019, June 20) Writer Ta-Nehisi Coates Makes the Case for Reparations at Historic Congressional Hearing (8:14)[Video File]. Retrieved fromhttps://youtu.be/N_FAW6U5p5I

[Department of English and Philosophy United States Military Academy: West Point] (2017, Apr. 27) Ta- Nehisi Coates - "The Case for Reparations" 2017 Zengerle Lecture (52:15) [Video File]. Retrieved fromhttps://youtu.be/oxQT3fQGJy4

[Freidrichs, C. (Director).] (2011). The Pruitt-Igoe Myth [Video file]. Unicorn Stencil. Retrieved from Kanopy https://brooklyn.kanopy.com/video/pruitt-igoe-myth-0

[Future] (2010, Mar. 16) The Lost Tribes of New York City | Future Shorts [Video File]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/ltYSnEdSrEM

[infinitypl] (n.d) New York A Documentary Film Episode 7 The City And The World 1945 2000 [Video File]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/Gr5iF8Zdobc

[Manufacturing Intellect] (2017, Apr. 8) Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement documentary [Video File]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/eIoYtKOqxeU

[Orderson, K., New Day Films (Firm), & Kanopy (Firm)]. (2019). Not in my neighbourhood: Urban activists fighting against spatial violence

[Pounder, C. C. H., Larry Adelman, Jean Cheng, Christine Herbes-Sommers, Tracy Heather Strain, Llewellyn Smith, and Claudio Ragazzi.]  Race : the Power of an Illusion San Francisco, Calif: California Newsreel, 2003.

[Read, L. Rowley, R. Granatstein, S. (Director).] (2016). A House Divided [Video file]. Divided Films. Retrieved from Kanopy https://brooklyn.kanopy.com/video/house-divided-0

[Rosen, B. Workman, J. Roth, J. Weinstein, J. Cullman, S. Brook, Y. (Director).] (2016). True New York [Video file]. First Run Features. Retrieved from Kanopy.

[UMBCtube] (2011, Feb. 9) Antero Pietila [Video File]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/HtxZ-NuPDGM

[VBS TV] (2009, Feb. 25) TOXIC - Brooklyn [Video File]. Retrieved from https://vimeo.com/3363551