TOUR UNIT FOUR
Central Park- Whose Park Is It Anyway?
Harlem- Black Metropolis: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Present
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Topic
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Day
1 |
The
Park and the People: Real Estate, Re-creation and Reform
HA 86-89
Blackmar and Rosenzweig, Park and the People ,
Chapter 1 (Handout)
Central
Park slides
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Day
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Contested Domains: The Case of Seneca Village
Blackmar and Rosenzweig, Park and the People ,
Chapter 3 (Handout)
Seneca Village slide show
Seneca
Village DBQ- Whose Park Is It Anyway?
Seneca Village Simulation
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Day 3 |
The Great Migration(s)
HA, 136-139
Osofsky, "The Other Harlem, Roots of Instability," in Harlem:
Making of a Ghetto, Chapter 6
Huggins, Harlem Renaissance, p.13-26
James
Weldon Johnson on the Growth of Black Harlem
Philip
Payton on Harlem Real Estate
1) How does real estate speculation
produce a black Harlem?
2 )What brings African Americans from the American South and the
carribean to Harlem? What are the push and pull factors that drive
blacks from their places of origin and draw them to NYC and Harlem?
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Day 4 |
Political Harlem: Separation or Integration?
Huggins, Harlem Renaissance, p.
26-51
W.E.B.
Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk (excerpt)
handout on B.T. Washington, Du
Bois and Garvey
1) How does the development of
Black Harlem from the 1890s to the 1920s affect black political
thought?
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Day 5 |
Literary Harlem and the ÎNew Negroâ: Renaissance or Revelation?
Huggins, Harlem Renaissance, 52-83
Zora
Neale Hurston, How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Langston
Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers; I, Too
Langston
Hughes, Visitors to the Black Belt
Countee
Cullen, Heritage
in class slides of African American art
1) Choose a poem for analysis.
Address the question posed by Huggins: ã How do blacks assert
both a mainstream American and distinctly ethnic identity through
art? |
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Day 6 |
Whose Harlem: The Fall and Rise of Harlem?
De-Industrialization, decline and gentrification packet:
William Julius Wilson, Work
Data Tables from Robert Fitch, The Assassination of New York
Matthew Drennan, The Decline and Rise of the New York Economy
House Proud; Making Family History
in Historic Harlem NYTimes 1/17/2002
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Day 7 |
Perceptions of Decline and Rebirth
(draft)
“The New Immigrants:
Who they Are, Where They Are,” NYT, 11/28/93
Graffiti readings
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Day 8 |
Library
Research
Discuss tour location and choose
stops(in groups)
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Day 9 |
Library
Research
Finish notes and email.
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Day 10 |
Quiz, debrief on tour and post
contributions on the Gotham map website
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