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
6:45
Meet in the Palladium lobby
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
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
12:00 – 1:30
Lunch at the Torch Club
2:00 - 3:45
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
4:00 - 5:30
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
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 SeventeenthCentury Martha's Vineyard,” William and Mary Quarterly (2005), 141-74.
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;
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.
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;
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. 409455.
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.
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).
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 HoytSchemerhorn 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).
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
2:00 – 3:45
The Rise of the Middle Class and Suburbanization
Speaker: Daniel Walkowitz, Professor, History, NYU
Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street
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; 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); Amy Chozick, “The Middle Class is Disappearing, at Lease
from Vocabulary of Possible 2016 Contenders,” New York Times, May 11, 2015; Kenneth Jackson,
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States (1987), pp. 3-11, 116-218.
Recommended Reading: 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; 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); John Iceland and Kurt Bauman, “Income poverty and
material hardship: How strong is the association?” Journal of Socio-Economics (June 2007) 376-396;
Stuart M. Blumin, The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City
(1989), pp. 1-18, 138-229.
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); 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; Martin Gilens, Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty
Policy (1999), chps. 2, 8; Andrew Wiese, Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization
in the Twentieth Century (2005).
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).
III. CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HETEROGENEITY
Monday, June 22
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, 384404; 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. 220261; 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).
Tuesday, June 23
9:30 – 11:15
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
12:00 – 2:00
Lunch at Sylvia’s Restaurant
2:00 – 5:00
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.
8:00 - 10:00
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 AfroCaribbean 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.
Wednesday, June 24
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
12:30 - 2:00
Lunch Discussion in Chinatown – Jim Fong Restaurant, 20 Elisabeth, between
Canal and Bayard
2:00 - 5:00
Ethnic Community in Chinatown
Tour of Chinatown with Sebastian Cherng, Professor, International Education,
NYU. 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: Natasha Zaretsky, No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of
National Decline, 1968–1980 (2007); 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: 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; 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: 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;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
9:00 – 11:30
Individual Research & Reading
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: 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. --- Need recent article on gay marraiage.
Recommended Reading: 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.
Suggested Reading: 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. 439456; Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, ed., The Muslims of America (1991); Richard Alba, Blurring the Color
Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America (2009).
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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 have a special tour of the Untied States Air Force
Academy. On Saturday, you will attend a lecture by Santiago Guerra, Assistant Professor of Southwest
Studies at Colorado College. The afternoon will be free tol visit the Pioneer Museum. 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. 3049; 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
2:00-4:00
6:00 - 9:00
Individual Research & Reading
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; Judith Kafka, Professor, Baruch College, CUNY.
Conference Room, 3rd floor, 246 Greene Street
Documentary Movie and Dinner:
Baseball: Our Game. Ken Burns PBS Documentary
Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene 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. –could use article on Evangelical Christian
control of local school boards.
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
9:30
Meet in Palladium lobby
10:00 - 12:00
Baseball Practice in Central Park
5:30
Meet in Palladium lobby
7:00 - 11:00
Baseball (required) - New York Yankees versus Tamp Bay Rays
Suggested Reading: Roger Angell, Once More Around the Park (2001).
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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-TicketDistribution-in-the-Park/
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IV. NATIONAL UNITY: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INTEGRATION
Monday, July 6
9:00 – 12:00
Individual Research & Reading
2:00 - 4:00
American Popular Culture and Consumerism
Panel discussion moderated by Josef Sorett, Professor, Religion and AfricanAmerican 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
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: 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: 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: 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
10:00 - 1:00
World Trade Center Memorial/Transit Hub and Brookfield Place
2:00 - 5:00
Individual Research & Reading
6:00 - 8:00
Jazz (optional) – New York Jazz Workshop, Lexington Avenue and 48th Street
Suggested Reading: David Dunlap, “As Oculus at World Trade Center Opens, So Does a
Neighborhood,”New York Times, My 6, 2015; “September 11: Ten Years After,” Organization of
American History Magazine of History, Volume 25 Issue 3 July 2011.
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; Ted Magder, Professor, Culture and Communications,
NYU.
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; :
Bernard Bailyn, Education in the Forming of American Society (1960).—Need 1 very recent article on
2016 presidential election
Recommended Reading: Joseph E Uscinski, “Too Close to Call? Uncertainty and Bias in ElectionNight 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
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campaign,” Washington Post, October 3, 2012; Lawrence Cremin, Popular Education and Its Discontents
(1990), pp. 1-50.
Suggested Reading: Herbert Gans, Deciding What's News (1979), pp. 8-35, 146-155; John Fiske,
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; Adrienne Katz, League of Women Voters; Roberto
Ramirez, founding Partner, MirRam Group, and former member of the New York
State Assembly. 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. Could use recent article on influence of Koch
Brothers and other wealthy people on shaping Congressional agenda.
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
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 new Whitney Museum of American Art
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!
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