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.
WEEK ONE INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
4 September Introduction to the Course (and the City)
Review of the Syllabus (NO READING)
WEEK TWO CLASSICAL THEORIES OF URBANISM
9 September Classical Approaches to the City
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.
Zorbaugh, Harvey. 1927. “The Gold Coast”, “Towertown”, “The World of Furnished Rooms”, and “Community Institutions and the Social Agency” in The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago’s Near North Side. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
11 September The Chicago School
Zorbaugh, Harvey. 1927. “The Shadow of the Skyscraper”, “An Area in Transition”, “The Slum”, and “Little Hell” 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
16 September Urban Policy and the Rise of the Suburb
Gans, Herbert. 1967. “Social Life: Suburban Homogeneity and Conformity” 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” , and ““The Cost of Good Intentions” in Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press.
18 September Workshop: Studying the City
Visit by Beth Hoppe, Social Sciences Research & Instruction Librarian REMINDER: BRING YOUR LAPTOPS TO CLASS!!!
WEEK FOUR THE PERSISTENCE OF THE GHETTO
23 September The Roots of Racial Segregation
DuBois, W.E.B. 1899. “Social Classes and Amusements” in The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Massey, Douglas and Nancy Denton. 1993. “The Missing Link” and “The Construction of the Ghetto” in American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the American Underclass. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
EXPERTS: THEO HURLEY, NOELIA CALCANO
25 September Urban Poverty and the Persistence of Segregation
Sharkey, Patrick. 2013. “The Inheritance of the Ghetto” and “Neighborhoods and the Transmission of Racial Inequality” and “The Cross-Generational Legacy of Urban Disadvantage” in Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
EXPERTS: GIANCARLO DE LA ROSA, EMMA HAHESY
WEEK FIVE RACE AND PLACE
30 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: ANDREW MOORE, ETHAN STRULL
2 October Race and Place in a Post-Racial Era
Lung-Aman, Willow S. 2017. “The New Gold Mountain” and “A Quality Education for Whom?” in Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle of Suburbia. Berkeley: University of California Press.
EXPERTS: PRAISE HALL, JULIA MARANGONI
4 October Neighborhood Profile due by 5 pm via OneDrive
WEEK SIX CRIME, CRIMINALITY, AND COMMUNITY EFFICACY
7 October Crime and Policing
Stuart, Forrest. 2016. Down, Out, and Under Arrest, Introduction and Part I.
EXPERTS: DEVON KENNEDY, SHANNON GALLAGHER
9 October Policing the Police/Surveillance
Stuart, Forrest. 2016. Down, Out, and Under Arrest, Part II.
EXPERTS: CATHERINE ADAMS, ALI DOUGAL
WEEK SEVEN CRIME, CRIMINALITY, AND COMMUNITY EFFICACY
14 October Fall Break – No Class
16 October Community Responses to Criminality
Vargas, Robert. 2015. Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio. ALL
EXPERTS: CESAR DIAZ, YADIRA CRUZ
WEEK EIGHT MIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION
21 October Theories of Migration and Immigration
Guest Lecture by Marcelle Medford, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Bates College
Andrews, Abigail. 2018. Undocumented Politics, Introduction, Chs. 1, 3.
Medford, Marcelle. 2019. “Racialization and Black Multiplicity: Generative Paradigms for Understanding Black Immigrants.” Sociology Compass.
23 October Constructing the “Local” Transnationally
Andrews, Abigail. 2018. Undocumented Politics, Ch. 2, 4 – 5.
EXPERTS: BRANDON LEE, MATT NAKAMOTO
18 October Midterm 1 Due by 5 pm via OneDrive
WEEK NINE CONTEMPORARY THEORIES OF URBANISM
28 October The Political Economy of the City
*Logan, John R., and Harvey Molotch.” [1987] 2007. “The City as a Growth Machine” (Growth Machine, Part One) (Growth Machine, Part 2) 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: JOSHUA BROOKS, KATE FOSBURGH
30 October The City by Way of Los Angeles
Centner, Ryan. 2008. “Places of Privileged Consumption: Spatial Capital, the Dot-Com Habitus, and San Francisco’s Internet Boom”. City & Community 7(3): 193 – 223.
Kidder, Jeffrey. 2017. “Introduction: Thinking Sociologically about Parkour,” “Introduction: Thinking Sociologically about Parkour”, “New Prisms of the Possible,” and Conclusions: Appropriating the City” in Parkour and the City: Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Space. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
EXPERTS: RONMEL RUGAMA-MONTENEGRO, LAILOO PERRIELLO
1 November Final paper Prospectus due by 5 pm via OneDrive
WEEK TEN GENTRIFICATION AND THE RISE OF THE CREATIVE CLASS
4 November Making Sense of Gentrification
Hyra, Derek. 2017. Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City. Chs. 1 – 3.
EXPERTS: EMILY LAM, BETTY LOUIS
6 November Cultural Gentrification and the Rise of the Creative Class
Hyra, Derek. 2017. Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City. Chs. 4, 6 – 7.
EXPERTS: MYA VU, JASON PARK
WEEK ELEVEN PLACEMAKING AND THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURE
11 November (Re)Producing Culture in the Postmodern City
*Ocejo, Richard E. 2017. “Preface: The Daily Grind”, “Introduction. A Stroll through the Market”, “Distilling Authenticity” and “How Middle-Class Kids Want Working Class Jobs” in Masters of Craft: Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
EXPERT: TERESA ANDRES, RISA FOX
13 November The Tourist City
Wynn, Jonathan. 2015. “Introduction: City and Stage”, “The Unlikely Rise in Importance of American Music Festivals” , and “Part-Time Indie Music Club “South by Southwest” in Music/City: American Festivals and Placemaking in Austin, Nashville, and Newport. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
EXPERTS: MADDIE FOZO, NATE KELSEY
15 November Midterm paper due by 5 pm via OneDrive
WEEK TWELVE SEXUALITY AND THE CITY
18 November There Goes the Gayborhood!
Orne, Jason. 2017. “Gay Disneyland”,“One of the Good Guys”, “Straight to Halsted”, and “Girlstown” in Boystown: Sex and Community in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
EXPERTS: CAMILO PAREJA, MOLLY PETRONZIO
20 November There Goes the Gayborhood?
Stillwagon, Ryan and Amin Ghaziani. 2019. “Queer Pop-Ups: A Cultural Innovation in Urban Life.” City & Community
“Cultural Archipelago’s Symposium”
Ghaziani, Amin. 2019.“Cultural Archipelagos: New Directions in the Study of Space and Place”. City & Community 18(1).
Greene, Theodore. 2019. “Queer Cultural Archipelagos are New to US”. City & Community 18(1).
Brown-Saracino, Japonica. 2019. “Aligning Our Maps: A Call to Reconcile Distinct Visions of Literatures on Sexualities, Space, and Place”. City & Community 18(1).
Doan, Petra. 2019. “Cultural Archipelagos or Planetary Systems”. City & Community 18(1).
Carrillo, Héctor. 2019. “Cultural Archipelagos and Immigrants’ Experiences”. City & Community 18(1).
EXPERTS: JESSICA BAE, LOVE ARVIL
WEEK THIRTEEN GENDER POLITICS AND THE CITY
25 November Gender Politics and the City
Hoang, Kimberly Kay. 2015. “New Hierarchies of Global Men”, “Sex Workers’ Economic Trajectories”, and “The Contemporary Sex Industry” in Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work. Berkeley: University of California Press.
EXPERTS: EMILIA MAJERSIK, SULWAN AHMED
27 November THANKSGIVING BREAK – NO CLASS
WEEK FOURTEEN INSURGENT URBANISMS
2 December Creating Alternate Practices
Douglas, Gordon C.C. 2018. The Help Yourself City, Chs. 2 – 3, 6.
EXPERTS: HANNAH DONOVAN, BEN BROWNE
4 December “Pathology” as a Creative Force
Douglas, Gordon C.C. 2018. The Help Yourself City, Ch. 5
*Greene, Theodore. 2018. “Queer Street Families: Place-Making and Community Among LGBT Youth of Color in Iconic Gay Neighborhoods” in Queer Families and Relationships After Marriage Equality. Michael Yarbrough, Angela Jones, and Joseph DeFilippis, eds. New York: Routledge.
EXPERTS: CHANEL MATTHEWS, JUSTIN PATEL
WEEK FIFTEEN URBAN MOVEMENTS
9 December Urban Movements: An Introduction
Boyle, Andrea S. 2019. You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community,Disorder and Social Ties in a Post-Ferguson America, Chs. 1 -3.
EXPERT: MANVEER SANDHU, ISABELLA WAY
11 December You Can’t Stop the Revolution!
Boyle, Andrea S. 2019. You Can’t Stop the Revolution: Community, Disorder and Social Ties in a Post-Ferguson America, Chs. 4 – 6.
EXPERTS: AMBER RAMOS, REBECA PEREZ BERNAL
NOTE: FINAL PAPERS ARE DUE VIA EMAIL ONEDRIVE BY 11:30 AM ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21.