Schedule of classes and topics REGISTRATION WEEK (September 7-11) Week 1 (September 14) Orientation and introduction to the course Week 2 (September 21) The Rise of Urban America: A brief historical and cultural overview of the United States in the first half of the 20th century Zsolt Virágos, [2.4.1] The 1900s and 1910s: The Reading: The Modernists and Others: Progressive Era (36-46) I The Spatial Dynamics of Slumming and the Emergence of Commercial Leisure Week 3 (September 28) An overview and an underview: uneven development and the social production of American underworlds Reading: Jacob Riis: (Introduction, Chapters I, II, III, IV) How the Other Half Lives Week 4 (October 5) Going down: Narratives of Slumming in the Ethnic Underworlds of Lower New York, 1890s -1910s, remapping Lower New York in the late nineteenth century travel guide Reading: in New A Glimpse into the William Meloney: “Slumming York’s Chinatown: Sordid Underworld of the Mott Street Quarter, Where Elsie Sigel Formed Her Fatal Associations” Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives (Chapter IX, “Chinatown”) Week 5 (October 12) Degenerate Sex and the New Urban Amusements, and City: “Below Bohemia”: Zoning, Djuna Barnes in the Era of the City Practical Reading: Djuna the Villagers Amuse as It Barnes: “How Themselves,” “Greenwich Village Is” II The Changing Conceptualization of Race in the Slumming Vogues of New York Week 6 (October 19) Migration and urbanization; the role of Harlem in the development of African American urban culture: cultural capital versus ghetto
Schedule of classes and topics REGISTRATION WEEK (September 7-11) Week 1 (September 14) Orientation and introduction to the course Week 2 (September 21) The Rise of Urban America: A brief historical and cultural overview of the United States in the first half of the 20th century Reading: Zsolt Virágos, The Modernists and Others: [2.4.1] The 1900s and 1910s: The Progressive Era (36-46) I The Spatial Dynamics of Slumming and the Emergence of Commercial Leisure Week 3 (September 28) An overview and an underview: uneven development and the social production of American underworlds Reading: Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives (Introduction, Chapters I, II, III, IV) Week 4 (October 5) Going down: Narratives of Slumming in the Ethnic Underworlds of Lower New York, 1890s -1910s, remapping Lower New York in the late nineteenth century travel guide Reading: William Meloney: “Slumming in New York’s Chinatown: A Glimpse into the Sordid Underworld of the Mott Street Quarter, Where Elsie Sigel Formed Her Fatal Associations” Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives (Chapter IX, “Chinatown”) Week 5 (October 12) Degenerate Sex and the City: “Below Bohemia”: Zoning, New Urban Amusements, and Djuna Barnes in the Era of the City Practical Reading: Djuna Barnes: “How the Villagers Amuse Themselves,” “Greenwich Village as It Is” II The Changing Conceptualization of Race in the Slumming Vogues of New York Week 6 (October 19) Migration and urbanization; the role of Harlem in the development of African American urban culture: cultural capital versus ghetto
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