COURSE OUTLINE AND READINGS
NB: The professor reserves the right to adjust, eliminate, or substitute readings on this list to accommodate the intellectual needs of the class. Students will ALWAYS be advised of changes in class and in writing no later than 48 hours in advance.
*denotes readings on Blackboard.
WEEK ONE INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
30 August Introduction to the Course (and the City)
Review of the Syllabus (NO READING)
WEEK TWO CLASSICAL THEORIES OF URBANISM
4 September Classical Approaches to the City
*Cressey, Paul. 1932. “A Night in the Taxi-Dance Hall” (pp. 3 – 16), and “The Taxi-Dance Hall as a Social World” (pp. 31 – 53) in The Taxi-Dance Hall: A Sociological Study in Commercialized Recreation and Social Life. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
*Simmel, Georg. [1902 – 3]. “The Metropolis and Mental Life” (pp. 324 – 339) in Georg Simmel on Individuality and Social Forms. Donald N. Levine, ed. (1975). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
6 September The Chicago School
*Zorbaugh, Harvey. 1927. “The Gold Coast” (pp. 46 – 69), “The World of Furnished Rooms” (pp. 69 – 86) and “The Slum” (pp. 127 – 158) in The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago’s Near North Side. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
WEEK THREE THE RISE OF THE GHETTO
11 September Urban Policy and the Rise of the Suburb
*Gans, Herbert. 1967. “Social Life: Suburban Homogeneity and Conformity” (pp. 153 – 184) in The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Politics in a New Suburban Community. New York: Columbia University Press.
*Jackson, Kenneth. 1985. “Federal Subsidy and the Suburban Dream: How Washington Changed the American Housing Market” (pp. 190 – 208), “The Baby Boom and the Age of the Subdivision” (pp. 231 – 245) in Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press.
EXPERTS: HAYLEY PERKINS, KRISTA SMITH, HOLLY HORNBECK
13 September Constructing the Ghetto
Visit by Beth Hoppe, Social Sciences Research & Instruction Librarian
*DuBois, W.E.B. 1899. “Social Classes and Amusements,” (pp. 309 – 321) in The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
*Massey, Douglas and Nancy Denton. 1993. “The Missing Link” (pp. 1 – 16) and “The Construction of the Ghetto” (pp. 17 – 59) in American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the American Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
EXPERTS: CESAR SIGUENCIO, THEA KELSEY
WEEK FOUR THE PERSISTENCE OF THE GHETTO
18 September Urban Poverty and the Persistence of Segregation
* Sharkey, Patrick. 2013. “The Inheritance of the Ghetto,” (pp. 24 – 46), “Neighborhoods and the Transmission of Racial Inequality” (pp. 91 – 116) and “The Cross-Generational Legacy of Urban Disadvantage” (pp. 117 – 135) in Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
EXPERTS: HALEY PERKINS, ELIZABETH WEATHERS, HOLLY HORNBECK
20/25 September The Iconic Ghetto
*Murphy, Alexandra. 2012. “‘Litterers’: How Objects of Physical Disorder are Used to Construct Subjects of Social Disorder in a Suburb.” Annals 642: 210 – 227.
*Lee, Jooyoung. 2009. “Battlin’ on the Corner: Techniques for Sustaining Play.” Social Problems 56(3): 578 – 598.
*Rios, Victor. 2011. “Dummy Smart: Misrecognition, Acting Out, and Going Dumb” (pp. 97 – 123) in Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys. New York: NYU Press.
EXPERTS: EMMA GREEN, BLAKE GORDON, WILSON MACMILLAN
WEEK FIVE RACE AND PLACE
25 September The Iconic Ghetto
*Murphy, Alexandra. 2012. “‘Litterers’: How Objects of Physical Disorder are Used to Construct Subjects of Social Disorder in a Suburb.” Annals 642: 210 – 227.
*Lee, Jooyoung. 2009. “Battlin’ on the Corner: Techniques for Sustaining Play.” Social Problems 56(3): 578 – 598.
*Rios, Victor. 2011. “Dummy Smart: Misrecognition, Acting Out, and Going Dumb” (pp. 97 – 123) in Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys. New York: NYU Press.
EXPERTS: EMMA GREEN, BLAKE GORDON, WILSON MACMILLAN
27 September The Survival Strategies of Working Class Whites
*Sherman, Jennifer. 2009. “The Place I Found: An Introduction to Golden Valley” (pp. 25 – 54) and “Workers and Welfare: Poverty, Coping Strategies, and Substance Abuse (pp. 55 – 100) in Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
EXPERTS: KRISTA SMITH, HANNAH GRAHAM, ELISE MORANO
29 September Final paper prospectus due by 5 pm ([email protected]).
WEEK SIX CRIME, CRIMINALITY, AND COMMUNITY EFFICACY
2 October Codes of the Suburb
*Jacques, Scott and Richard Wright. 2015. “The Pursuit of Coolness” (pp. 5 – 24), “Police and Parents” (pp. 66 – 81), and “The Triumph of Conventionality” (pp. 122 – 136) in Code of the Suburb: Inside the World of Middle-Class Drug Dealers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
*Lacy, Karen. 2007. “Race and Class Based Identities: Strategic Assimilation in Middle-Class Suburbia” (pp. 151 – 184) in Blue Chip Black: Race, Class, and Status in the New Black Middle Class. Berkeley: University of California Press.
EXPERTS: BLAKE GORDON, JOE GENTILE, WILSON MACMILLAN, GRACE MALLETT
4 October Life on the Run
*Goffman, Alice. 2015. “The Art of Running” (pp. 25 – 54), “When the Police Knock Your Door In” (pp. 55 – 90), and “The Social Life of Criminalized Young People” (pp. 109 – 142) in On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. New York: Picador.
EXPERTS: ELIZABETH WEATHERS, CAROLINE BENSON, CAROLINE FLAHARTY
WEEK SEVEN CRIME, CRIMINALITY, AND COMMUNITY EFFICACY
9 October Fall Break – No Reading
11 October Community Responses to Criminality
*Goffman, Alice. 2015. “Turning Personal Troubles into Legal Resources” (pp. 91 – 108) and “Appendix: A Methodological Note” (pp. 213 – 264) in On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. New York: Picador.
*Vargas, Robert. 2015. “Silence and the Art of Arson” (pp. 121 – 147) in Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
EXPERTS: MAMADOU DIAW, ELIZABETH GROWNEY, JULIANA FIORE
WEEK EIGHT CONTEMPORARY THEORIES OF URBANISM, PART TWO
16 October The Political Economy of the City
*Logan, John R., and Harvey Molotch.” [1987] 2007. “The City as a Growth Machine” (pp. 50 – 98) in Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place. Berkeley: University of California Press.
*Loughran, Kevin. 2014. “Parks for Profit: The High Line, Growth Machines, and the Uneven Development of Urban Spaces.” City & Community 13(1): 5 – 32.
EXPERTS: HANNAH GRAHAM, DAVID REYNOLDS, ALLIE CARROLL, SABRINA HUNTE
18 October The City by Way of Los Angeles
*Dear, Michael. 2002. “Los Angeles and the Chicago School: An Invitation for Debate.” City & Community 1(1): 5 – 32.
*Cheng, Wendy. 2013. “Diversity on Main Street: Civic Landscapes and Historical Geographies of Race” (pp. 129 – 170), “Conclusion: How Localized Knowledges Travel (pp. 197- 212), and “Appendix: Cognitive Maps of Race, Place, and Region” (pp. 213 – 221) in The Changs Next to the Diazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
EXPERTS: EMMA GREEN, ASTRID SELF, THEA KELSEY, IVY WILLIAMS
20 October Midterm paper due by 5 pm via email ([email protected]).
WEEK NINE/TEN COMMUNITY IN THE CONTEMPORARY CITY
23 October The Networked City
*Driskell, Robyn Batemen and Larry Lyon. 2002. “Are Virtual Communities True Communities? Examining the Environment and Elements of Community.” City & Community 1(4): 373 – 390.
*Goodspeed, Robert. 2017. “Community and Urban Places in a Digital World.” City & Community 16(1).
*Kidder, Jeffrey. 2012. “Parkour, The Affective Appropriation of Urban Space, and the Real/Virtual Dialectic.” City & Community 11(3): 229 – 253.
EXPERTS: JULIANA FIORE, MORGEN GALLAGHER, MEREDITH STANHOPE, ELLEN GYASI
25 October Community Saved (?)
*Anderson, Elijah. 2000. “The Cosmopolitan Canopy.” The Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science 595: 14 – 31.
*Hunter, Marcus Anthony. 2010. “The Nightly Round: Space, Social Capital and Urban Black Life.” City and Community 9(2): 165 – 186.
*Jerolmack, Colin. 2013. “Joey’s Brooklyn Pet Shop,” (pp. 133 – 157) in The Global Pigeon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
EXPERTS: LUCIA GAGLIARDONE, ALLIE CARROLL, NICK SARNI, ELISE MORANO
30 October Migrant and Immigrant Communities
*Aguilar San-Juan, Karin. 2005. “Staying Vietnamese: Community and Place in Orange County and Boston.” City & Community 4(1): 37 – 65.
*Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette and Jose Miguel Ruiz. 2014. “‘Illegality’ and Spaces of Sanctuary: Belonging and Homeland Making in Urban Community Gardens” (pp. 246 – 271) in Constructing Immigrant Illegality: Critiques, Experiences, and Responses, Cecilia Menjivar and Daniel Kanstroom, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press.
EXPERTS: MOGREN GALLAGHER, ELIZABETH GROWNEY, CESAR SIGUENCIA, ELLEN GYASI
WEEK ELEVEN GENTRIFICATION AND THE RISE OF THE CREATIVE CLASS
6 November Making Sense of Gentrification
*Freeman, Lance. 2006. “Making Sense of Gentrification” (pp. 95 – 124), “Neighborhood Effects in a Changing ‘Hood” (pp. 125 – 156) in There Goes the ‘Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
EXPERTS: SABRINA HUNTE, DAVID REYNOLDS, MAMADOU DIAW, CAROLINE BENSON, JOE GENTILE
8 November Cultural Gentrification and the Rise of the Creative Class
Hyra, Derek. 2017. “Making the Gilded Ghetto: Welcome to 14th Street” (pp. 3 – 22), “Black Branding” (pp. 75 – 104), “Linking Processes of Political and Cultural Displacement” (pp. 127 – 146) and “The Cappuccino City” (pp. 147 – 154) in Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
EXPERTS: JUSTIN WEATHERS, EDDIE AKUBUDE, JENNY IBSEN, GRACE MALLETT
WEEK TWELVE PLACEMAKING AND THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURE
13 November (Re)Producing Culture in the Postmodern City
*Ocejo, Richard E. 2017. “Preface: The Daily Grind” (pp. xi – xxi), “Introduction. A Stroll through the Market” (pp. 1 – 22), “Distilling Authenticity” (pp. 50 – 75), and “How Middle-Class Kids Want Working Class Jobs” (pp. 129 – 158) in Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
EXPERTS: EDDIE AKUBUDE, NICKIE MITCH, JENNY IBSEN
15 November The Tourist City
*Wynn, Jonathan. 2015. “Introduction: City and Stage” (pp. 1 – 20), “The Unlikely Rise in Importance of American Music Festivals” (pp. 21 – 44), and “Part-Time Indie Music Club “South by Southwest” (pp. 125 – 166) in Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
EXPERTS: JP HUGHES, NICK SARNI, LIAM FARLEY, SAM WARD
17 November Midterm paper due by 5 pm via email ([email protected]).
WEEK THIRTEEN SEXUALITY AND THE CITY
20 November There Goes the Gayborhood?
Orne, Jason. 2017. “On Safari” (pp. 18 – 37), “Naked Intimacy” (pp. 38 – 50), “Sexy Community” (pp. 51 – 62), and “New, Now, Nex, Not” (pp. 79 – 107) in Boystown: Sex and Community in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
EXPERTS: ASTRID SELF, MICHELLE JEONG, IVY WILLIAMS, SYDNEY SALLE
22 November THANKSGIVING BREAK – NO CLASS
WEEK FOURTEEN GENDER POLITICS AND THE CITY
27 November Gender Politics and the City
*Brown-Saracino, Japonica. 2011. “From the Lesbian Ghetto to Ambient Community: The Perceived Costs and Benefits of Integration for Community.” Social Problems 58(3): 361 – 388.
*Campbell, Rebecca, Jessica Shaw ad Gianna Fehler-Cabral. 2015. “Shelving Justice: The Discovery of Thousands of Untested Rape Kits in Detroit.” City & Community 14(2): 151 – 166.
*Reger, Jo. 2015. “The Story of a Slut Walk: Sexuality, Race, and Generational Divisions in Contemporary Feminist Activism.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 44(1): 84 – 112.
The “Slut Walks Reading Packet”
EXPERTS: JUSTIN WEATHERS, LUCIA GAGLIARDONE, CAROLINE FLAHARTY
29 November Creating Alternate Practices
*Centner, Ryan. 2008. “Places of Privileged Consumption Practices: Spatial Capital, the Dot-Com Habitus, and San Francisco’s Internet Boom. City & Community 7(3): 193 – 223.
*Douglas, Gordon C.C. 2014. “Do-It-Yourself Urban Design: The Social Practice of informal ‘Improvement’ Through Unauthorized Alteration.” City & Community 12(1): 5 – 25.
*Greene, Theodore. 2017. “Street Corner Citizenship: Gay Neighborhoods, Vicarious Citizenship, and the Self-Enfranchisement of Queer Youth.”
EXPERTS: JP HUGHES, MICHELLE JEONG , GARDENIA PIMENTEL
WEEK FIFTEEN THE FUTURE OF CITIES
4 December Urban Movements
*Bonilla, Yarimar and Jonathan Rosa. 2015. “#Ferguson: Digital Protest, Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Media in the United States.” American Ethnologist 42(1): 4 – 17.
*Rosenfeld, Michael. 1997. “Celebration, Politics, Selective Looting and Riots: A Micro Level Study of the Bulls Riots of 1992 Chicago. Social Problems 44(4): 483 – 502.
“From Ferguson to Charlottesville” Packet
EXPERTS: NICKIE MITCH, LIAM FARLEY, SAMUEL WARD
6 December The Global City
*Hoang, Kimberly Kay. 2015. “The Contemporary Sex Industry” (pp. 39 – 52), “New Hierarchies of Global Men” (pp. 53 – 77), and “Sex Workers’ Economic Trajectories” (pp. 154 – 172) in Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work. Berkeley: University of California Press.
EXPERTS: GAREDNIA PIMENTEL, MEREDITH STANHOPE,
NOTE: FINAL PAPERS ARE DUE VIA EMAIL ([email protected]) BY 5 PM ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15.