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New York University Multinational Institute of American Studies

Study of the U.S. Institute on U.S. Culture and Society 2015

THE RECONCILIATION OF AMERICAN DIVERSITY WITH NATIONAL UNITY

Saturday, June 6 Arrival and check-in at Palladium

Sunday, June7 Morning Unpack and catch up on sleep. 1:00-2:00 Administrative Orientation: Meet MIAS staff in the Palladium Multipurpose

Room to fill out paperwork for your bank account. 2:00 – 5:00 Tour of NYU

I. LOCAL AUTONOMY AND PLURALISM IN AMERICA

Monday, June 8 8:45 Meet in Palladium lobby 9:30 – 12:00 New York Architecture, Urban Design and Community Planning

Tour of midtown Manhattan, and lecture by Carol Krinsky, Professor of Art

History, NYU. We begin at Grand Central Terminal, the handsome and

brilliantly-planned privately-owned railroad building that restructured midtown

in the 20th century. The tour continues past skyscrapers built on the railroad’s

land, following the introduction of zoning rules that restricted the pursuit of

competitive profit. It ends at Rockefeller Center, a group of commercial

buildings that is recognized as one of the world’s finest urban complexes. While

much of what you will see is striking and beautiful, our city results primarily

from commercial ambitions, aided by engineering and tempered by law. 12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH

1:00 - 5:00

Group A (Amanda) 12:00-2:00 Bank 2:00-3:00 NYU ID 3:00-4:00 Email

Group B (Anna) 12:00-1:00 NYU ID 1:00-3:00 Bank 3:00-4:00 Email

Group C (Emma) 12:00-1:00 NYU ID 1:00-2:00 Email 2:00-4:00 Bank

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6:45 Meet in the Palladium lobby

7:00 - 9:00 Opening Reception Meet with other NYU officials, faculty, and graduate students. Pless Hall Lounge, 82 Washington Square East

Assigned Reading: William H. Jordy, “The Impact of European Modernism in the Mid-Twentieth

Century,” American Buildings and Their Architects, VOL. 4 pp. 1-83; Carol Krinsky, “Midtown Tour. Recommended Reading: Neil Harris, Building Lives (1999), chps. 1, 3. Suggested Reading: Alexander Garvin, “Helping Adam Smith's Invisible Hand,” Bulletin of the

Association for Preservation Technology, Vol. 13, No. 2, Regulating Existing Buildings (1981), pp. 27-

30.

Tuesday, June 9

9:30 - 11:15 Reconciliation of Diversity with National Unity

Meet with Philip Hosay, Professor of International Education, and Director of the

Multinational Institute of American Studies, NYU, to discuss the main theme of

the program. Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

2:00 - 3:45

4:00 - 5:30

American Federalism and Local Governance Speaker: Richard Pious, Ochs Professor of American Studies, Barnard College

and Columbia University. Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street Information Technology Services, NYU Library and E-Resources Orientation to NYU computer facilities, Bobst Library, online research resources,

and other services.

6:00 - 9:00 Museum Mile Festival (free and optional) Museums along Fifth Avenue in Manhattan open their doors free to the public; El

Museo del Barrio, The Jewish Museum, The Museum of the City of New York,

The Guggenheim, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are amongst the

participating museums. Fifth Avenue between 82nd and 105th Streets, Manhattan

Directions: take the 4 or 5 train to the 86th Street Stop and walk West on 86th

Street to Fifth Avenue.

Assigned Reading: Thomas Bender, “Strategies of Narrative Synthesis in American History,” American

Historical Review (February 2002), pp. 129-153; David Levering Lewis, “Exceptionalism’s Exceptions:

The Changing American Narrative,” Daedalus (Winter 2012), 101-117; William H. Chafe, “The

American Narrative: Is There One & What Is It?,” Daedalus (Winter 2012), 11–17; Sean Wilentz, The

Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2006), chps. 1-5, 10-11; Gary Wills, Explaining

America (1981), pp. 1-93; Shama Gamkhar and Mitchell Pickererilly, “The State of AmericanFederalism

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2011-2012: A Fend for Yourself and Activist Form of Bottom-Up Federalism,” Publius:The Journal of

Federalism, volume 42, number 3, pp. 357-386. Recommended Reading: Paul Giles and R.J. Elis, “E Pluribus Multitudium: The New World of Journal

Publishing in American Studies,” American Quarterly 57.4 (2005); Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in

America, ed. by Richard D. Heffner, pp. 49-58, 95-142, 189-220, 289-317; Daniel Elazar, “Opening the

Third Century of American Federalism: Issues and Prospects,” The Annals of the American Academy of

Political and Social Science (May 1990); The Federalist Papers, nos. 10, 78, 81. Suggested Reading: Robert J. Berkhofer, Jr. “A New Context for American Studies,” American

Quarterly 41 (1989); Stephen H. Sumida, “Where in the World is American Studies,” American

Quarterly 55.3 (2003), 333-351; Joel Pfister, “The Americanization of Cultural Studies,” Yale Journal of

Criticism 4:2 (1991); Robert Inman and Daniel Rubinfeld, “Rethinking Federalism,” The Journal of

Economic Perspectives, Vol. 11, No. 4. (Autumn, 1997), pp. 43-64; David Walker, “The Advent of an

Ambiguous Federalism and the Emergence of New Federalism III,” Public Administration Review

(May/June 1996);

Wednesday, June 10

9:30-11:15

The Constitutional Basis for Individual Rights in America Speaker: Thomas Halper, Professor, Political Science, Baruch College, City

University of New York.

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

2:00 - 3:45 Creating Successful Communities in Early America Speaker: Andrew Robertson, Professor, History, Lehman College and CUNY

Graduate Center Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

4:00 - 5:00 New England Trip Briefing

7:00 - 10:00

Theater (free and optional): Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” performed in Central Park (West 103rd Street and

Central Park West), Manhattan. Directions: Take the B or C train to 103rd Street.

Enter the park at West 103rd Street and Central Park West.

Assigned Reading: Leonard W. Levy, “The Original Meaning of the Establishment Clause of the First

Amendment,” in James E. Wood, Jr., ed., Religion and the State: Essays in honor of Leo Pfeffer (1985);

Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience (1965), pp. 325-390; Richard J. Arneson,

“Perfectionism and Politics,” Ethics (Oct., 2000), pp. 37-63; Ronald Dworkin, “Affirmative Action: Does

it Work?” and “Affirmative Action: Is it Fair?” in Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality

(2002); Joseph S. Wood, “‘Build, therefore, your own world:’ The New England Village as Settlement

Ideal,” The Annals of the Association of American Geographers (March, 1991); David J. Silverman,

“Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation: Creating Wampanoag Christianity in Seventeenth-

Century Martha's Vineyard,” William and Mary Quarterly (2005), 141-74.

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Recommended Reading: Geoffrey Stone, War and Liberty: An American Dilemma (2007); David P.

Forsythe, “United States Policy toward Enemy Detainees in the ‘War on Terrorism,’”Human Rights

Quarterly ( May 2006), pp. 465-491; Simon Middleton, “’How it Came that the Bakers Bake No Bread’:

A Struggle for Trade Privileges in Seventeenth-Century New Amsterdam,” William and Mary Quarterly

(2001), 347-72.; Jane Landers, “Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose: A Free Black Town in Spanish

Colonial Florida,” American Historical Review, 95 (1990). Suggested Reading: Judith Baer, Equality Under the Constitution: Reclaiming the 14th Amendment

(1983), chps. 2,6,10; Linda Krieger, “Civil Rights Perestroika: Intergroup Relations After Affirmative

Action” California Law Review 86 (1998), pp. 1251-1333; Sumner C. Powell, Puritan Village (1963),

chps. 5-l0; James Merrell, “The Cast of His Countenance: Reading Andrew Montour” in Ronald

Hoffman, Mechal Sobel, and Fredrika Teute, eds., Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal

Identity in Early America (1997), 13-39;

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Thursday, June 11 - Sunday, June 14

Community in New England Tour of Boston led by Lindsey Sasaki. Participants will depart via train on Thursday morning for

Boston. After checking into the Hilton Boston Downtown Hotel, you will go on a walking tour that

examines social cohesion from the perspective of the elite community of Beacon Hill. Participants will be

free to explore the city and have dinner on your own in downtown Boston that evening. On Friday

morning, you will go on a walking tour of Old Boston focusing on the memory and meanings, symbolized

in public monuments that various ethnic and other groups make of that history in Boston. The tour will

also examine the transition of Boston's North End from a colonial to an immigrant community. In the

afternoon you will have a tour of Harvard University. On Saturday morning you will travel to Concord,

Massachusetts, where you will visit Walden Pond and examine the continuing importance of community

in New England. That evening you will attend a dinner hosted by Mitalene Fletcher, Director of Pre K-12

and International Programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and alumna of the NYU

International Education doctoral program. Sunday morning will be free to visit Boston’s museums before

departing for New York City in the afternoon. The focus of this tour will the changing character of the

New England community and how its democratic traditions facilitated the incorporation of diverse groups

of migrants. Suggested Reading: William Cronon, Changes in the Land (1983)pp. 159-170; Norman Ware, The

Industrial Worker (1924), pp. 1-25; Tuyet-Lan Pho, “Southeast Asian Women in Lowell: Family

Relations, Gender Roles, and Community Concerns,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Volume

24, Number 1, 2003, pp. 101-129.

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Monday, June 15 9:30 - 11:15 The Search for Community in the American Imagination

Speaker: Rene Arcilla, Professor, Philosophy and Humanities Education, NYU. Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

12:00 - 4:00 Lunch and Discussion of Research Interests There will be a roundtable discussion over lunch in which the participants will be

able to present how the study of the US is approached in each of their countries.

This will be followed by individual meetings with staff to assist participants in

locating scholarly resources and establishing contacts with relevant academics and

other scholars in the New York metropolitan area. Participants will also have an

opportunity to indicate what sorts of civic organizations and other associations –

political, religious, environmental, economic development, educational, etc. - they

may wish to visit. Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

5:00 - 7:00 Movie (free and optional): Outdoor movie, “Saturday Night Fever,” which starts between 8:00 and 9:00 pm at

Bryant Park, 42nd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Directions: Take the B,

D, F, or M train to the 42nd Street/Bryant Park stop.

Assigned Reading: Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country (1998). Recommended Reading: Mary Ann Villarreal, “Finding Our Place: Reconstructing Community through

Oral History,” The Oral History Review (Summer–Autumn, 2006), 45-64; Vicki L. Ruiz, “Citizen

Restaurant: American Imaginaries, American Communities,” American Quarterly (March, 2008), 1-21. Suggested Reading: Sacvan Bercovitch, The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic

Construction of America (1992), chp. 10; Toni Morrison, “Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-

American Presence in American Literature,” The Tanner Lecture on Human Values, University of

Michigan, October 7, 1988;

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II. INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND THE AMERICAN CREED Tuesday, June 16

9:00 – 12:00 Individual Research & Reading

2:00 - 4:00

Electronic Media, Censorship, and Individual Privacy Panel discussion moderated by Terence Moran, Professor of Media Ecology in the

Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU Steinhardt. Members of the panel are: Ralph Engelman, Chairman, Department of Journalism,

Long Island University, and former Chairman of the Board, WBAI; Marilyn

McMillan, Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information

Technology Officer, NYU; and Norm Siegel, attorney and former Executive

Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union. Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

5:00 - 7:00 Concert (free and optional): “Accordions Around the World.” A cross-cultural musical journey – from France

to Colombia, from the Balkans to Louisiana, from cumbia to jazz, and more.

Location: Fountain Terrace in Bryant Park, 42nd Street between 5th and 6th

Avenues, Manhattan. Directions: Take the B, D, F, or M train to the 42nd

Street/Bryant Park stop.

Assigned Reading: “Who's Watching You on the Web?,”

http://www.pcworld.com/features/article/0,aid,14817,00.asp; Robert Faris and Bruce Etling,“Madison and

the Smart Mob: The Promise and Limitations of the Internet for Democracy,” The Fletcher Forum of

World Affairs (Summer 2008), 65-85; Adam Thierer, The Pursuit of Privacy in a World Where

Information Control is Failing,” Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy; Spring 2013; 36, 2; pp. 409-

455. Recommended Reading: Evgeny Morozov, “Wither Internet Control?” Journal of Democracy, Volume

22, Number 2, April 2011, pp. 62-74; Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, Harry Lewis, Blown to BitsYour Life,

Liberty,and Happiness After the Digital Explosion (2008), chp. 2; Elin Palm, “Privacy Expectations at

Work—What Is Reasonable and Why?,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice (Apr., 2009), 201-215 ; Suggested Reading: Noam Cohen, “It’s Tracking Your Every Move and You May Not Even Know,”

New York Times, March 26, 2011; Daniel J. Solove and Marc Rotenberg, Information Privacy Law

(2003); Debbie V. S. Kasper, “The Evolution (Or Devolution) of Privacy,” Sociological Forum (March

2005), 69-92.

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Wednesday, June 17 9:30 - 11:30 Religious Liberty and the American Creed

Panel discussion moderated by Gabriel Moran, Professor, Philosophy of

Education and Religion, NYU. Members of the panel are: Robert Seltzer,

Professor, History, Hunter College, CUNY; Alyshia Galvez, Director of the

CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies; and Daniel Flamberg, Managing

Director, Digital Strategy and CRM,The Kaplan Thaler Group, Ltd.

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

1:00 – 5:00 Individual Research & Reading

7:00 Meet in Palladium lobby

8:00 - 11:00 Theater (required): “Hand to God”

Assigned Reading: Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life , “U.S. Religious Landscape Survey,”

October, 2012; Robert Putnam and David Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Unites and Divides

Us (2010); chap. 1-2, 8-9, 11, 14-15; Winthrop S. Hudson, “Liberty, Both Civil and Religious,” in Jerald

Brauer, ed., The Lively Experiment Continued (1988). Recommended Reading: Michael V. Angrosino, “Civil Religion Redux,” Anthropological Quarterly

(Spring 2002), pp. 239-267; Noah Feldman, “From Liberty to Equality: The Transformation of the

Establishment Clause,” California Law Review (May, 2002), pp. 673-731. Suggested Reading: Jon Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith: The Christianizing of the American People

(1990), chps. 1-2; Martin E. Marty, “Religion: A Private Affair, in Public Affairs,” Religion and

American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation (Summer, 1993); Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, “Muslims in

U.S. Politics: Recognized and Integrated, or Seduced and Abandoned?,” SAIS Review (Summer-Fall

2001), pp. 91-102; Richard Kluger, Simple Justice (1975).

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Thursday, June 18 9:30 - 11:15 Individualism, Entrepreneurship and American Business Enterprise

Speaker: TBA Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

2:00 - 4:00 Class Consciousness and Organized Labor in America Panel discussion moderated by Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Distinguished Professor of

Sociology, City University of New York Graduate Center. Members of the panel

are: Ida Torres, Secretary-Treasurer, United Storeworkers Union, Local 3; Donna

T. Harvety-Stacke, Professor, History and Roosevelt House Faculty Associate,

Hunter College; Bill Henning, Vice President, Communications Workers of

America, Local 1180. Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

7:00 - 9:00 Outdoor Performance (free and optional): R&B musician Algebra Felicia Blessett. Location: Herbert Von King Park at 670

Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn. Directions: Take the C train downtown to the Hoyt-

Schemerhorn stop and transfer to the G train headed towards Court Square. Get

off at the Bedford-Nostrand Avenue stop and walk east on Lafayette Street toward

Marcy Avenue.

Assigned Reading: Thomas K. McCraw, Prophets of Regulation (1984), pp. 300-309; Paul Krugman,

“Crony Capitalism,” in The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century (2003); Melvyn

Dubofsky, Hard Work: The Making of Labor History (2000), pp. 100-173 ; Jennifer Klein, “We Were the

Invisible Workforce: Unionizing Home Care;” Tayyab Mahmud, “Debt and Discipline,” American

Quarterly (September 2012), pp. 469-494; Stephanie Luce, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: A Labor

Day Assessment of the Past Year,” New Labor Forum (Fall 2012), pp. 66-73. Recommended Reading: Anisya S. Thomas and Stephen L. Mueller, “A Case for Comparative

Entrepreneurship: Assessing the Relevance of Culture,” Journal of International Business Studies (2nd

Qtr., 2000), pp. 287-301; Eric Foner, “Why is There No Socialism in the United States?;” History

Workshop Journal 17 (Spring 1984); Tami J. Friedman, “Exploiting the North-South Differential:

Corporate Power, Southern Politics, and the Decline of Organized Labor after World War II.” The

Journal of American History 95, no. 2 (September 2008). Suggested Reading: Glenn Porter, The Rise of Big Business: 1860-1920 (1973); Charles Riley, Small

Business, Big Politics: What Entrepreneurs Need to Know to Use Their Growing Political Power (1995);

Gary Marks, Unions in Politics: Britain, Germany, and the United States in the Nineteenth and Early

Twentieth Centuries (1989); Herbert Hill, “The Problem of Race in American Labor History,” Reviews in

American History (1996), pp. 189-208; Elizabeth Tandy Shermer, “Origins of the Conservative

Ascendancy: Barry Goldwater's Early Senate Career and the De-legitimization of Organized Labor.” The

Journal of American History 95, no. 3 (December 2008).

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Friday, June 19 9:30 - 11:30

Poverty in America: Social Responsibility and Individual Self-Reliance Panel discussion moderated by Lawrence Mead, Professor, Politics, NYU.

Members of the panel are Jeremy Reiss, Deputy Officer for Public Policy and

External Relations, Henry Street Settlement; David Chen, Executive Director,

Chinese American Planning Council; Michelle Holder, Assistant Professor,

Economics, City University of New York. Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

1:00 - 5:00 Individual Research & Reading

6:30 - 8:30 Theater (free and optional): Shakespeare’s “King John” performed in Riverside Park, North Patio of the

Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument (West 89th Street & Riverside Park). Directions:

Take the 2 train to 96th Street. Walk west on 96th Street and enter Riverside Park.

Assigned Reading: James T. Patterson, America's Struggle Against Poverty in the Twentieth Century

(2000), pp. 171-184, 210-223; Marianne P. Bitler and Hilary W. Hoynes, “The State of the Social Safety

Net in the Post-Welfare Reform,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2010, pp. 71-127; Elvin

Wyly, C. S. Ponder, Pierson Nettling, Bosco Ho, Sophie Ellen Fung, Zachary Liebowitz, and Dan

Hammel, “New Racial Meanings of Housing in America,” American Quarterly (September 2012), pp.

571-604; Joseph Stiglitz, The Price of Inequality: How Today’s Divided Society Endangers our Future,

chps. 1, 4, 5; David R. Howell, “The Austerity of low Pay: US Exceptionalism in the Age of Inequality,” Social Research Vol. 80 : No. 3 (Fall 2013); Josh Bivens, Elise Gould, Lawrence

Mishel, Heidi Shierholz, “Raising America’s Pay: Why It’s Our Central Economic Policy Challenge,”

Economic Policy Institute (June 4, 2014) Recommended Reading: Alberto Alesina, “Why Doesn't the United States Have a European-Style

Welfare State?,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2001, 2), pp. 187-277; Douglas J. Besharov,

“The Past and Future of Welfare Reform,” The Public Interest (Winter 2003): 4-21.John Iceland and

Kurt Bauman, “Income poverty and material hardship: How strong is the association?” Journal of Socio-

Economics (June 2007) 376-396. Suggested Reading: Michael Katz, In the Shadow of the Poorhouse (1996), pp. 251-292; Kent B.

Germany, “The Politics of Poverty and History: Racial Inequality and the Long Prelude to Katrina,” The

Journal of American History, 94, no. 3 (December 2007); Martin Gilens, Why Americans Hate Welfare:

Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy (1999), chps. 2, 8.

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Saturday, June 20 - Sunday, June 21

Free Weekend As this is one of only two free weekends in the program, the participants can choose to catch up on

reading, do some shopping, rest, go to the beach, or visit museums. Saturdays at the Guggenheim

Museum are “pay what you wish” from 5:45 to 7:45 pm (1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street; take the 4, 5,

or 6 train to 86th Street). The Greenwich Village Street Festival, “Positively 8th Street,” will take place

from 12:00 to 5:00 pm on Saturday along West 8th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues near NYU in

Manhattan (take the A, C, E, F, B, D or M subway lines to W. 4th Street or walk from the Palladium). On

Saturday evening at 8:30 pm, there will be an outdoor movie—French Cancan by Jean Renoir—in

Washington Square Park (take the A, C, E, F, B, D or M subway lines to W. 4th Street and walk east along

W. 4th Street or walk from the Palladium). The American Black Film Festival will take place on Saturday

and Sunday, see the website at http://www.abff.com for a detailed schedule of events. The Tenement

Museum offers highly recommended neighborhood immigration tours and is located at 103 Orchard

Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan (take the F train to Delancey Street and walk two blocks west

on Delancey Street – away from the bridge – and turn left on Orchard Street; see the website at

www.tenement.org for more details). Participants can also visit Ellis Island – to book tickets visit the

website at http://www.statuecruises.com/. On Sunday, from 7:00 to 10:00 pm, the Rumsey Playfield in

Central Park will host the Blue Note Jazz Festival featuring a concert by Buika & Marques Toliver

(Rumsey Playfield is located in Central Park near Fifth Avenue and 72nd Street, Manhattan. Take the 4

train to 77th Street, walk south to 72nd Street and enter Central Park).

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III. CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HETEROGENEITY Monday, June 22

9:00 - 12:00 Diversity in Harlem

Tour of Harlem, including a visit to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

Culture at the New York Public Library and to the Abyssinian Baptist Church. The

tour will also look at the recent gentrification of West Harlem. The focus of this

tour will be the diverse communities that make up Harlem.

12:00 – 2:00 3:00 – 4:30

8:00 - 10:00

Lunch at Sylvia’s Restaurant Recreating Community: The Black Migration from Farm to City Speaker: Gunja SenGupta, Professor, History Department, Brooklyn College,

CUNY. Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street Concert (free and optional): Outdoor opera, The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series. Location: Central Park Summer Stage near 5th Avenue and 72nd Street, Manhattan. Directions: Take the 4 train to 77th Street. Walk south to 72nd Street and enter Central Park.

Assigned Reading: Nicholas Lemann, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It

Changed America; Violet M. Showers. “’What, Then, Is the African American?’ African and Afro-

Caribbean Identities in Black America.” Journal of American Ethnic History 28, no. 1 (Fall 2008);

Edward E. Curtis, “Islamism and Its African American Muslim Critics: Black Muslims in the Era of the

Arab Cold War.” American Quarterly (2007), 683-709. Recommended Reading: Adam Fairclough, Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000, chps.

9-15; Larry L. Hunt, “Hispanic Protestantism in the United States: Trends by Decade and Generation,”

Social Forces (June, 1999), pp. 1601-1624; William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race

(1978), pp. 155-182. Suggested Reading: Robert L. Harris, Jr., “The Flowering of Afro-American History,” American

Historical Review (December, 1987); Robin D. G. Kelley, Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black

Working Class (1994), chp. 8; Jorge Duany, “Reconstructing Racial Identity: Ethnicity, Color, and Class

among Dominicans in the United States and Puerto Rico,” Latin American Perspectives (May, 1998), pp.

147-172; Ira Berlin, “From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American

Society in Mainland North America.” The William and Mary Quarterly 53, no. 2 (April 1996), 251-288.

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Tuesday, June 23 9:30 - 11:15 Immigration and Cultural Conflict

Speaker: Daniel Soyer, Professor, History, Hofstra University Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

12:30 – 5:00 Pluralistic Integration in Queens

Following lunch, you will have a brief tour of Jackson Heights-Corona in Queens,

New York. This part of Queens is one of the most ethnically diverse middle class

neighborhoods in the United States, home to a largely immigrant population from

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Korea, China, the Philippines, the Dominican

Republic, Columbia, Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Argentina, and a host of other

countries. You will then visit the Louis Armstrong Museum.

7:30 - 9:30 Dance Performance (free and optional): Outdoor modern dance recital choreographed by Enrico D. Wey. Location: Pier 15

on the East River, Manhattan. Directions: Take the 2 or 3 train to Wall Street. Exit

at William Street and walk north on William street. Take a right onto Liberty street

to walk east. Continue walking east as the street turns into Maiden Lane and

continue until you see the pier. Walk one block north to arrive at the corner of

South Street and Fletcher Street.

Assigned Reading: Lawrence H. Fuchs, The American Kaleidoscope (1990), pp. 1-34, 384-404; Louise Cainkar, 'The Social Construction of Difference and the Arab American Experience,"Journal of

American Ethnic History, vol. 25, no. 2-3 (Winter-Spring 2006); Ronald H. Bayor, "Another Look at

'Whiteness': The Persistence ofEthnicity in American Life," Journal of American Ethnic History (Fall

2009), pp. 13-30; Roger Sanjek, The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York

City(1998), chps. 10-11, 15, conclusion.

Recommended Reading: David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the

American Working Class (1999), chps. 1 and 7; Stephen Themstrom, The Other Bostonians: Poverty

and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970, pp. 220-261; David Hollinger, Postethnic

America: Beyond Multiculturalism (1995); Jeff Biggers, State Out Of the Union: Arizona and the

Final Showdown Over the American Dream (2012).

Suggested Reading: John Higham, Send These to Me: Immigrants in Urban America (1984); Hasia

Diner, Hungering for America: Italian, Irish and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration (2002).

David M. Reimers, Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity And The Turn Against Immigration

(1998).

Wednesday, June 24

9:00 - 12:00 Individual Research & Reading

12:30 - 2:00

Lunch Discussion in Chinatown - Dim Sum Go Go

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2:00 - 5:00

Ethnic Community in Chinatown Includes a visit to the Museum of the Chinese in America and a walking tour of the

neighborhood led by MOCA staff. The focus of this tour will be the tension

between the process of assimilation and the formation of an Asian American ethnic

identity. 6:00 - 8:00

Concert (free and optional): Outdoor concert, Ester Rada, Ethiopian-Israel jazz/funk musician, and Maya

Azucena, R&B/soul musician. Location: Oval Lawn, Madison Square Park on East

23rd Street between 5th Avenue and Madison Avenue, Manhattan. Directions:

Take the N or R subway line to the 23rd Street stop and walk north into the park.

Assigned Reading: Nga-Wing Anjela Wong , “They See Us as Resource:’ The Role of a Community-

Based Youth Center in Supporting the Academic Lives of Low-Income Chinese American Youth,”

Anthropology & Education Quarterly (Jun., 2008), 181-204.Joel L. Swerdlow, “New York’s Chinatown,”

National Geographic (August, 1998); Yen Le Espiritu and Paul Ong "Class constraints on racial

solidarity among Asian Americans," in eds., Paul Ong, ed., The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles

and Global Restructuring (1994), pp., 295-322. Recommended Reading: Vichet Chuon & Cynthia Hadley, “Asian American Ethnic Options: How Cambodian Students Negotiate Ethnic Identities in a U.S. Urban School,” Anthropology & Education

Quarterly (December, 2010), 341-359 ; Mary Ting Yi Lui, The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder,

Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City. (2005). Suggested Reading: Bic Ngo & Stacey Lee, “Complicating the Image of Model Minority Success: A

Review of Southeast Asian American Education,” Review of Educational Research (December, 2007),

415-453; Philip Q. Yang, “Sojourners or Settlers: Post-1965 Chinese Immigrants,” Journal of Asian

American Studies (February 1999), pp. 61-91

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Thursday, June 25

9:30 - 11:15

The American Family: Shifting Ethnic, Racial and Gender Identities Speaker: Deborah Carr, Professor, Sociology, Rutgers University. Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street Conference Room, 3rd floor

11:45 - 12:45 New Mexico and Colorado Trip Briefing

2:00 - 4:00 Ethnicity, Race, Gender, and Class in American Politics Panel discussion moderated by Daniel Feldman, Professor, Public Management, John Jay College, CUNY, and former New York State Assemblyman. Members

of the panel are: Russell Roybal, Deputy Executive Director of External

Relations, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force; Renée Blake, Professor, Social

and Cultural Analysis, Director, Africana Studies, NYU; Thuy Lin Tu, Professor

and Director, American Studies, NYU Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

7:00 - 9:00

Poetry (free and optional): Poetry reading at the Poets House Opening Exhibition. Location: Poets House, 10

River Terrace, Manhattan. Directions: Take the A or C train to Chambers Street.

Walk west along Chambers Street all the way to the end. Turn left and walk along

River Terrace for two blocks and Poets House will be at the corner of Murray

Street and River Terrace.

Assigned Reading: Natasha Zaretsky, No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of

National Decline, 1968–1980 (2007); Pamela Aronson, “Feminists or ‘Postfeminists’? Young Women's

Attitudes toward Feminism and Gender Relations,” Gender and Society (Dec., 2003), 903-922; Larry

Bartels, Unequal democracy: the political economy of the new gilded age (2008), chps. 1-3, 5, 9; Taeku

Lee, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow? Post-Racial & Pan-Racial Politics in the Age of Obama,” Dædalus

(Spring, 2011); Kavita Nandini Ramdas, “Leveraging the Power of Gender and Race,” The Nation

(February, 21, 2008); Lawrence Bobo and Camille Charles, “Race in the American Mind: From the

Moynihan Report to the Obama Candidacy,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social

Science (2009); J Laura R. Winsky Mattei, “Gender and Power in American Legislative Discourse, The

Journal of Politics, (May, 1998), pp. 440-46.

Recommended Reading: Rebecca L. Davis, “’Not Marriage at All, but Simple Harlotry’: The

Companionate Marriage Controversy,” The Journal of American History (March 2008); Eunice G.

Pollack, “The Childhood We Have Lost: When Siblings Were Caregivers, 1900-1970,” Journal of Social

History, vol. 36, no. 1 (2002), pp. 31-61; Michael Dunne, “Black and White Unite? The Clinton-Obama

Campaigns in Historical Perspective,” The Political Quarterly (Jul-Sep 2008); Bruce E Caswell, “The

Presidency, the Vote, and the Formation of New Coalitions,” Polity (July 2009), 388-407; Diane

Winston, “Back to the Future: Religion, Politics, and the Media,” American Quarterly (September 2007),

pp. 969-989;Sally Howell and Andrew Shyrock, “Crashing Down on Diaspora: Arab Detroit and

America’s ‘War on Terror,’” Anthropological Quarterly (Summer 2003); Carl Boggs, “The Great Retreat:

Decline of the Public Sphere in Late Twentieth-Century America,” Theory and Society (Dec., 1997), pp.

741-780.

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Suggested Reading: Patricia McDaniel, “Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts: Shyness and

Heterosexuality From the Roles of the Fifties to The Rules of the Nineties,” Journal of Social History,

vol. 34, no. 3 (2001), pp. 547-568; Donald R. Kinder and Nicholas Winter, “Exploring the Racial Divide:

Blacks, Whites, and Opinion on National Policy,” American Journal of Political Science, (April, 2001),

pp. 439-456; Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, ed., The Muslims of America (1991); Richard Alba, Blurring the

Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America (2009). Friday, June 26 - Wednesday, July 1

Ethnicity and Assimilation on the American Frontier Tour of New Mexico and Colorado led by Lindsey Sasaki. Upon arriving in Denver, Colorado, the group

will drive to Colorado Springs where we will check into the Quality Suites Hotel, located a short walk

from the city center. During the afternoon, we will visit the Pioneer Museum, and then you will be free to

relax, explore, and have dinner on your own in Colorado Springs on Friday evening. On Saturday, you

will attend a lecture by Santiago Guerra, Assistant Professor of Southwest Studies at Colorado College.

That evening, you may elect to attend the Acacia Summer Concert Series – free live music featuring local

bands. En route to Taos, New Mexico, on Sunday morning, we will stop at the Garden of the Gods, a

National Natural Landmark, and later check in to the El Monte Sagrado Living Resort and Spa. On

Monday, you will tour the Taos Pueblo and visit the Millicent Rogers Museum’s collection of

contemporary Native American art and Spanish-New Mexican art. On Tuesday, we will drive to Canon

City, Colorado, and ride on the Royal Gorge Route Railroad to take in the sights along the Arkansas

River. The group will return to Denver on Wednesday morning in order to fly back to New York City that

afternoon. The focus of this tour is patterns of ethnic confrontation and assimilation on the Western

frontier. Suggested Reading: Willa Cather, Song of the Lark; Diana Di Stefano, “ Alfred Packer’s World: Risk,

Responsibility, and The Place of Experience in Mountain Culture, 1873–1907,” Journal of Social History,

Volume 40, Number 1, Fall 2006, pp. 181-204; “Mexican Americans In the New West” and “Indians of

the Modern West,” in Gerald D. Nash and Richard W. Etulain, eds., The Twentieth-Century West

(1989); Ramon Gutierrez, “The Pueblo Indian World in the Sixteenth Century,” in David Hackett, ed.,

Religion and Culture: A Reader (1995); Anthony F. C. Wallace, The Long, Bitter Trail (1993), pp. 30-

49; Manuel Gonzales, Mexicanos: A History of Mexicans in the United States (1999), chps 7, 9; Charles

Montgomery, “The Trap of Race and Memory: The Language of Spanish Civility on the Upper Rio

Grande,” American Quarterly (September 2000), pp. 478-513.

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Thursday, July 2 9:00 - 12:00 Individual Research & Reading

2:00-4:00 Education and American Pluralism

Panel discussion moderated by Sebastian Cherng, Assistant Professor, International

Education, NYU. Other panelists include Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Assistant

Professor, History, New School University; Rhashida Hilliard, Teacher, New York

City Schools; TBA Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

5:00 - 8:00 Museum (pay what you wish and optional): The Jewish Museum. Location: 1109 5th Avenue at 92nd Street in Manhattan Directions: Take the 4, 5, or 6 subway line uptown to 86th Street/Lexington

Avenue. Walk west on 86th Street, turn right at 5th Avenue and walk north to 92th

Street.

Assigned Reading: Daryl Michael Scott, “Postwar Pluralism, Brown v. Board of Education, and the

Origins of Multicultural Education,” The Journal of American History 91, no. 1 (June 2004); Arthur I.

Whaley and La Noel, “Sociocultural theories, academic achievement, and African American adolescents

in a multicultural context: a review of the cultural incompatibility perspective,” Social Psychology

Education: An International Journal (2011) 14:149–168

Recommended Reading: Richard J. Murnane and John P. Papay, “Teachers’ Views on No Child Left

Behind: Support for the Principles, Concerns about the Practices,” Journal of Economic Perspectives,

(2010), 151-166; Cecilia Elena Rouse and Lisa Barrow, “School Vouchers and Student Achievement:

Recent Evidence and Remaining Questions,” Annual Review of Economics (2009), Vol. 1, pp. 17-42. Suggested Reading: Paul Peterson, “The Case For Charter Schools” and John E. Brandl, “Civic Values

In Public And Private Schools,” in Paul Peterson and Bryan Hassel, eds., Learning from School Choice

(1998); Martin Carnoy, “Do School Vouchers Improve School Performance?,” American Prospect

(January 1-15, 2001). Friday, July 3

9:00 – 5:00 Individual Research & Reading

7:00 –9:00 Dance (free and optional): Tap Dance Festival, Lincoln Center Assigned Reading: Bernard Bailyn, Education in the Forming of American Society (1960); Sean

Corcoran, “Can Teachers be Evaluated by their Students' Test Scores? Should They Be? The Use of

Value-Added Measures of Teacher Effectiveness in Policy and Practice,” Education Policy for Action

Series: Education Challenges Facing New York City (Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 2010);

Recommended Reading: Lawrence Cremin, Popular Education and Its Discontents (1990), pp. 1-50. Suggested Reading: Mortimer J. Adler, The Paideia Proposal, rev. ed. (1998), pp. 15-45. (2000).

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Saturday, July 4

12:00 - 5:00 July 4th Celebration (free and optional): Among the activities in which you may be interested in participating are: Improv

theater and barbecue at the Indie-pendence festival; music at the Rockabilly Night

Market, and Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island.

9:00 - 10:00 Fireworks (free and optional): Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks, East River. Location: East River. Directions: Take

the 2 or 3 train to Wall Street. Exit at William Street and walk north on William

Street. Take a right onto Liberty Street to walk east. Continue walking east as the

street turns into Maiden Lane and continue until you see the pier. Walk one block

north to arrive at the corner of South Street and Fletcher Street.

Suggested Reading: Ralph H. Gabriel, The Course of American Democratic Thought (1956), pp. 99-104,

315-318, 439-450; Homer Calkin, “The Centennial of American Independence ‘Round the World,’”

Historian (1976); Robert Andrews, “The Real American Independence Day?,” New-England Galaxy

(1975); Ray Privett, “Independence: An Intercultural Experience in North America,” The Drama Review

(2000).

Sunday, July 5

Free Day There are numerous free activities available for this weekend, including The Sixth Avenue Festival on

Sunday beginning at 12:00 pm along 6th Avenue between 14th Street and 23rd Street (take the L, F or M

subway lines to 14th Street and walk north along 6th Avenue or walk west along 14th Street from the

Palladium) and The Bryant Park Area Fair on Saturday from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm (take the B, D, F, or M

train to the 42nd Street/Bryant Park stop); There is also free kayaking on the Hudson River from 9:00 am

to 6:00 pm at Pier 40 in Manhattan (take the A, C, or E train to Canal Street and walk west to the river

and north to the pier). The South Street Seaport in Manhattan will host an outdoor movie, The Avengers,

on Saturday night at 8:00 pm (take the 4 or 5 subway line to Fulton Street and walk east on Fulton Street

to Water Street). On Sunday, a comedy fest, “Laughter in the Park,” will take place in Central Park at

West 67th Street from 2:00 to 4:00 pm (take the A or C subway line to 72nd Street and walk south to

enter the park at 67th Street). The Hester Street Fair will also take place on Sunday from 11:00 am to 6:00

pm at Hester Street and Essex Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan (take the F or M subway lines

to Essex/Delancey Street and walk south on Essex Street until you reach Hester Street). There will be a

showing of Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing on Sunday at 8:00 pm. Tickets are free, but you will

need to line up to get them at 12:00 pm at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park (take the B subway line

to the 81st Street- Museum of Natural History stop and walk into Central Park). For more information,

visit the website at http://www.publictheater.org/Programs--Events/Shakespeare-in-the-Park/Free-Ticket-

Distribution-in-the-Park/

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IV. NATIONAL UNITY: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INTEGRATION

Monday, July 6

9:30 - 11:15

The Rise of the Middle Class and Suburbanization Speaker: TBA Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

2:00 - 4:00 American Popular Culture and Consumerism Panel discussion moderated by Josef Sorett, Professor, Religion and African-

American Studies, Columbia University. Members of the panel include: Cyrus

Patell, Professor, English, NYU; Jonathan Gray, Associate Professor, English,

John Jay College; Janet Zarish, Professor and Head of Acting and Graduate Acting,

Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

6:00 - 9:00

Documentary Movie and Dinner: Baseball: Our Game. Ken Burns PBS Documentary Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

Assigned Reading: Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States

(1987), pp. 3-11, 116-218; LeRoy Ashby, With Amusement For All: A History of American Popular

Culture Since 1830 (2006), pp. 302-340; John Bodnar, “Saving Private Ryan and Postwar Memory in

America.” The American Historical Review 106, no. 3 (June 2001); Pew Research Center, “The Lost

Decade of the Middle Class: Fewer, Poorer, Gloomier,” (August, 2012). Recommended Reading: Stuart M. Blumin, The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in

the American City (1989), pp. 1-18, 138-229; Richard Butsch, The Making of American Audiences:

From Stage to Television, 1750-1990 (2000), pp. 158-294; Robin Muncy, “Cooperative Motherhood and

Democratic Civic Culture in Postwar Suburbia, 1940-1965.” Journal of Social History 38, no. 2 (2004):

285-310. Suggested Reading: Andrew Wiese, Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the

Twentieth Century (2005); Margaret Crawford, “The World in a Shopping Mall,” in Michael Sorkin, ed.,

Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space (1992); Shelley

Nickles, “More is Better: Mass Consumption, Gender, and Class Identity in Postwar America.” American

Quarterly 54, no. 4 (2002): 581-622.

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Tuesday, July7

9:30 Meet in Palladium lobby

10:00 - 12:00 Baseball Practice in Central Park

1:00 - 5:00

Individual Research & Reading

5:30 Meet in Palladium lobby

7:00 - 11:00

Baseball (required) - New York Yankees versus Oakland Athletics

Suggested Reading: Roger Angell, Once More Around the Park (2001).

Wednesday, July 8

9:30 - 11:30 Mass Culture, the Media, and American Politics Panel discussion moderated by Neil Hickey, Editor-at-Large, Columbia Journalism

Review. Members of the panel are: John Pavlik, Professor and Chair, Department

of Journalism, Rutgers University; Rhoda Lipton, Professor, Graduate School of

Journalism, Columbia; TBA. Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

1:00 - 5:00 The American School Tour of local school in New York led by Russell Wasden, Principal / Department

of Education.

8:00 – 10:00 Concert (free and optional): Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series, Central

Park SummerStage

Assigned Reading: W. Lance Bennett, “The Personalization of Politics: Political Identity, Social Media,

and Changing Patterns of Participation,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social

Science (November 2012), 20-39; Jeffrey P. Jones, Geoffrey Baym, Amber Day, “Mr. Stewart and Mr.

Colbert Go to Washington: Television Satirists Outside the Box,” Social Research (Spring 2012), 33-60;

Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols, “The Bull Market Political Advertising,” Monthly Review (Apr

2012), 1-26; Theda Skocpol, “Why the Tea Party's Hold Persists,” Democracy 31 (Winter 2014): 9-14. Recommended Reading: Joseph E Uscinski, “Too Close to Call? Uncertainty and Bias in Election-

Night Reporting,” Social Science Quarterly (March 2007); Kelefa Sanneh, “Party of One: Michael

Savage, Unexpurgated,” The New Yorker (August 3, 2009) pp. 50-57; Susan Herbst, “Political Authority

in a Mediated Age,” Theory and Society (2003); Vivian B. Martin, “Media Bias: Going Beyond Fair and

Balanced,” Scientific American (November 2008); “Mad Money: TV ads in the 2012 presidential

campaign,” Washington Post, October 3, 2012. Suggested Reading: Herbert Gans, Deciding What's News (1979), pp. 8-35, 146-155; John Fiske,

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Television Culture (1987), chp. 16; Mathew Kerbel, “PBS Ain't So Different: Public Broadcasting,

Election Frames, and Democratic Empowerment,” The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics

(Fall 2000), pp. 8-32; C. Richard Hofstetter, David Barker, James T. Smith, Gina M. Zari, and Thomas A.

Ingrassia, “Information, Misinformation, and Political Talk Radio,” Political Research Quarterly (Jun.,

1999), pp. 353-369.

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Thursday, July 9 9:30 - 11:30

Interest Group Politics and the National Interest Panel discussion moderated by Richard Harris, Professor, Politics, Rutgers

University-Camden, and Director, Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs.

Members of the panel are: Ellis Henican, columnist for Newsday and political

analyst for Fox News; TBA Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

11:45 - 12:45 Washington D.C. Trip Briefing

1:00 - 5:00

Individual Research & Reading

8:00 - 10:00 Concert (free and optional): New York Philharmonic Concert in the Park. Location: Cunningham Park, Queens. Directions: Take the F subway line to 179th Street in Queens. Walk northwest on

Midland Parkway towards Wexford Terrace. Keep walking on 188th Street and

turn right onto Union Turnpike. Enter at 193rd Street, near Union Turnpike. The

concert site is at the 193rd Street Field.

Assigned Reading: Frank R. Baumgartner & Beth L. Leech, “Interest Niches and Policy Bandwagons,”

HUThe Journal of Politics, (2001), 1191-1213; Richard L. Hall, Alan V. Deardorff, “Lobbying as

Legislative Subsidy,” American Political Science Review (February 2006), 69-83; John W. Kingdom,

Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (1995), pp. 48-74, 152-172; Nelson Polsby and Aaron

Wildavsky, Presidential Elections: Strategies of American Electoral Politics (1988), pp. 1-42; Andrew

Perrin, “Political Microcultures: Linking Civic Life and Democratic Discourse,” Social Forces

(December 2005), pp. 1049-1082; Kenneth R. Mayer, “Public Election Funding: An Assessment of What

We Would Like to Know,” The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics

Volume 11, Issue No. 3 (October 2013), p. 365-384 Recommended Reading: Robert Beirsack and Marianne H. Viray, “Interest Groups and Federal

Campaign Finance: the Beginning of a New Era.” in Paul S Herrnson et al., The Interest Group

Connection: Electioneering, Lobbying, and Policymaking in Washington (2004); Richard A. Smith,

“Interest Group Influence in the U. S. Congress,” Legislative Studies Quarterly (Feb., 1995), pp. 89-139;

Marie Hojnacki and David C. Kimball, “The Who and How of Organizations' Lobbying Strategies in

Committee,” The Journal of Politics (Nov., 1999), pp. 999-1024; George C. Edwards III and B. Dan

Wood, “Who Influences Whom? The President, Congress, and the Media,” The American Political

Science Review (June, 1999), pp. 327-344.

Suggested Reading: Robert C. Lowry, “The Private Production of Public Goods: Organizational

Maintenance, Managers' Objectives, and Collective Goals,” The American Political Science Review (Jun.,

1997), pp. 308-323; Ronald Hinckley, People, Polls, And Policymakers: American Public Opinion And

National Security (1992), chps. 1-3; Anne Marie Cammisa, Governments As Interest Groups:

Intergovernmental Lobbying and The Federal System (1995).

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Friday, July 10 - Monday, July 13

The Democratic Process and National Unity Tour of Washington, D.C. led by Philip Hosay. The group will depart via train on Friday morning. In the

early afternoon you will visit NeighborWorks, a bipartisan Congressionally funded non-profit that

coordinates affordable housing projects across the country; there you will discuss the consequences of the

housing crisis in 2008 and how the organization works with Congress and the OMB to secure funding for

its projects. Following this meeting you will be free to explore D.C. neighborhoods such as Adams

Morgan, Dupont Circle, Georgetown, and so forth. On Saturday morning, the group will tour the Capitol,

after we will attend a BBQ dinner at the home of Philip Hosay’s daughter and son-in-law, Marcea and

Paul Barringer, in Chevy Chase. On Sunday morning, you may elect to observe a religious service at the

Shiloh Baptist Church, a prominent and politically active African-American congregation in Washington,

or visit the White House. During the afternoon, accompanied by MIAS staff, you will be free to visit the

Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, the Vietnam Memorial, the Holocaust

Museum, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial, the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art, etc. On

Monday morning, participants will go to the U.S. Department of State to meet with officials in the Bureau

of Educational Affairs, and in the afternoon you will meet with Congressman Sander Levin of the House

Ways and Means Committee. That evening the group will take the train back to New York. In

Washington they will stay at the J.W. Marriott Hotel. The focus of this tour is the nature of the democratic

process in America and how it differs from democratic practices in other countries. Suggested Reading: Gordon S. Wood, “Democracy and the Constitution,” in Robert A. Goldwin and

William Schambra, eds., How Democratic is the Constitution, pp. 1-17; Larry J. Sabato, TheRise of

Political Consultants: New Ways of Winning Elections, pp. 302-337; William H. Hansell, Jr., “A

Common Vision for the Future: The Role of Local Government and Citizens in the Democratic Process,”

National Civic Review (Fall 1996); P.S. Martin, “Voting’s Rewards: Voter Turnout, Attentive Publics,

and Congressional Allocation of Federal Money,” American Journal of Political Science(January 2003),

pp. 110-127.

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Tuesday, July 14 9:30 - 11:15 Postmodernism in America

Speaker: Stacy Pies, Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, NYU. Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

11:45

Group Photo Meet in the lobby of 246 Greene Street for instructions on where the group photo

will be taken.

2:00 - 5:00 Individual Research & Reading

7:00 - 10:00 Theater (required): “An American in Paris”

Assigned Reading: Ann Douglas, “Periodizing the American Century: Modernism, Postmodernism, and

Postcolonialism in the Cold War Context,” Modernism/Modernity (September 1998), 71-98.

Recommended Reading: Marianne DeKoven, “Utopias Limited: Post-sixties and Postmodern American

Fiction,” Modern Fiction Studies (Spring 1995), 75-97; Harold Bloom, “Introduction” to Don DeLillo,

White Noise (2002 edition).

Suggested Reading: David James, “Tradition and the Movies: The Asian American Avant-Garde in Los

Angeles,” Journal of Asian American Studies (June, 1999), pp. 157-180; Miriam Hansen, “The Mass

Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism,” Modernism/Modernity (1999),

59-77.

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Wednesday, July 15 10:00 - 12:00 American Art and Identity

Tour of the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection, focusing on Abstract Expressionism and such contemporary American artists as Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Ellsworth Kelly, Barnett Newman, Frank Stella, and others.

1:00 - 5:00 Individual Research & Reading

8:00 – 10:00 Comedy (free and optional): Comedy Central Park presents The Daily Show and Friends hosted by Lewis

Black, Central Park Mainstage Assigned Reading: Wayne Craven, American Art: History and Culture (2002); Robert Rosenblum. On

Modern Art (1999), pp.62-71; Frascina and Charles Harrison, Modern Art and Modernism. A Critical

Anthology (1982), pp.93-104; Barnett Newman, “The First Man was an Artist.” and “The Sublime is

Now,” in Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, Art in Theory 1900-1990: An Anthology of Changing Ideas

(2002), pp. 566-69, 572-74. Recommended Reading: Maxwell Anderson, “Foreword” to Lisa Phillips, The American Century: Art

and Culture, 1950-2000 (2000); Jonathan Fineberg, Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being (2000); Annie E.

Coombes, "Museums and the Formation of National and Cultural Identities," in Preziosi and Farago, eds.,

Grasping the World: The idea of the museum (2004), pp. 278–298.

Suggested Reading: Beth Venn and Adam D. Weinberg, eds., Frames of Reference: Looking at

American Art, 1900-1950 (1999); David Joselit, American Art since 1945 (2003); Lawrence Alloway.

American Pop Art (1974), pp. 52-75; Amanda J. Cobb, “The National Museum of the American Indian as

Cultural Sovereignty,” in American Quarterly (June 2005), 485–506.

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Thursday, July 16 10:00 - 12:00 Diversity and Experimentation in American Music

Performance and lecture by Joel Sachs, Director, Contemporary Music, The Julliard School, and Director of Continuum. Location: TBA

1:00 - 5:00 Individual Research Presentations Participants will each give a 5-10 minute presentation on their individual research

and/or curriculum projects. Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

8:00 - 10:00 Movie (free and optional) Outdoor movie, “Gravity,” The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum’s flight deck,

on the west side of Manhattan on Pier 86 at 12th Avenue and 46th Street.

Directions: Take the A or C train to 42nd Street and walk west to the Hudson River

at 12th Avenue. Walk north to arrive at the Intrepid.

Assigned Reading: New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians “Charles Ives,” (2001), vol. 19, pp.

424-452; Michael Nyman, Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond (Music in the Twentieth Century

(1999), Introduction, chps. 1, 3; James Pritchett, The Music of John Cage (1993), chps. 3-4; Judith Tick,

Ruth Crawford Seeger: A Composer's Search for American Music (1997), Part VI Recommended Reading: Burton Peretti, “Speaking in the Groove: Oral History and Jazz,” Journal of

American History, Vol. 88, No. 2 (Sep., 2001), pp. 582-595; Roy Shuker, Understanding Popular Music

(1994), chps. 1, 6; Lewis A. Erenberg, "Things to Come: Swing Bands, Bebop, and the Rise of a Postwar

Jazzscene" in Lary May, ed., Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War (1989),

pp.221-245. Suggested Reading: Daniel Kingman, American Music: A Panorama, Concise Edition (2006); Richard

Crawford, America's Musical Life: A History (2001), pp. 664-688, 714-735, 778-798.

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Friday, July 17 9:00

Return all kitchen supplies, remaining cleaning supplies, phones, and cell phones

to 246 Greene Street, floor 3E

9:30 - 11:30 American National Identity and Transnationalism Roundtable discussion of participants and MIAS staff led by Philip Hosay. Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

1:30 - 3:00 Program Evaluation

Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street

7:00 - 10:00 Concluding Celebration Dinner and party at the home of Philip Hosay, 755 West End Avenue, where the

participants will receive a “Certificate in American Studies” from the New York

University Multinational Institute of American Studies.

Assigned Reading: Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword (1996),

chps. 1-3, 8; Alice Kessler Harris, “Social History,” in Eric Foner, ed. The New American History (1990);

Shelly Fisher Fishkin, “Crossroads of Cultures: The Transnational Turn in American Studies,” American

Quarterly 57.1 (2005) 17-57.

Recommended Reading: Lawrence W. Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural

Hierarchy in America (1990), pp. 169-242; Heinz Ickstadt, “American Studies in an Age of

Globalization,” American Quarterly 54.4 (2002) 543-562.

Suggested Reading: Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age (2002); Daniel

Geary, “Becoming International Again”: C. Wright Mills and the Emergence of a Global New Left,

1956–1962.” The Journal of American History 95, no. 3 (December 2008).

Saturday, July 18 - Sunday, July 19

Saturday is free for packing, shipping of books, shopping, and last-minute sightseeing. On Sunday, all participants must depart from the Palladium. Safe travels and keep in touch!