GCI Working Paper Series - Race, Ethnicity, and the City
The HistoryMakers:
A New Primary Source for Scholars
Julieanna Richardson
Vernon D. Jarrett Senior Fellow, Great Cities Institute
University of Illinois at Chicago
April 2007
GCP-07-08
This paper explores the possibilities of increasing the use and accessibility
of The HistoryMakers’ video oral history archive. The archive
of oral histories of African American “HistoryMakers” from
a wide range of backgrounds is a potential resource for academics, school
teachers, students, and historians alike. Information is presented on
the current state of the archives, potential future uses, and the importance
of documenting and preserving these oral histories to gain a deeper
understanding of African American history and experience.
Addressing
Controversy in the Classroom: Teaching about Immigrant Rights in Chicago
Schools
Irma Olmedo
Associate Professor, College of Education
University of Illinois at Chicago
April 2007
GCP-07-07
This article examines the issue of teachers’ decisions to address
controversial issues as teaching opportunities in the classroom, using
the recent immigrant rights mobilizations of 2006. As public reports
of planned deportations of the undocumented were heard, especially in
communities in urban areas with high proportions of these populations,
many families were gripped with fear about their status. This research
involved exploring the classroom-based activities of Chicago teachers
to engage their students in inquiry on these issues, and the participation
and perspectives of children that resulted from these activities.
Preparing
Adolescents to Read-To-Learn in the 21st Century
Louis M. Gomez
Professor of School Education and Social Policy
Northwestern University
Kimberly Gomez
Assistant Professor
College of Education
University of Illinois at Chicago
January 2007
GCP-07-03
This paper explores ways to remedy adolescents’ failure to acquire
reading-to-learn skills and explains the importance of being able to
understand texts from diverse disciplines in order to be successful
in the professional workplace and enhance overall life chances. The
authors suggest that inquiry-centered learning environments in schools
might better prepare students for the educational demands of careers
in the 21 century labor market. They also offer suggestions about how
these learning environments might better be coupled with the support
of reading and literacy.
The
New Chicago School - Not New York or L.A., and Why It Matters for Urban
Social Science.
Terry Nichols Clark
University of Chicago
September 2006
GCP-06-04
Michael Dear et al’s “LA School” builds on a critique
of the old Chicago school. This paper extends the discussion by incorporating
broader theories about how cities work, stressing culture and politics.
New Yorkers lean toward class analysis, production, inequality, dual
labor markets, and related themes--deriving for some from a secular
Marxism. LA writers are more often individualist, subjectivist, consumption-oriented;
some are also postmodernist. Chicago is the largest American city with
a heavily Catholic population, which heightens attention to personal
relations, extended families, neighborhoods, and ethnic traditions.
These in turn lead observers to stress culture and politics in Chicago,
as these vary so heavily by subculture. The paper outlines seven axial
points for a New Chicago School.
PTSD
in Children and Adolescents
Tanya Anderson
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry
College of Medicin, University of Illinois at Chicago
Great Cities Institute Faculty Fellow 2003-2004
November 2005
GCP-05-04
This paper reviews the history of PTSD, common symptomatology among
children and adolescents diagnosed with PTSD, issues in diagnosing PTSD
in children and adolescents, and lastly, trauma’s impact on development.
So Called Girl-on-Girl Violence
is Actually Adult-on-Girl Violence
Laurie Schaffner
Assistant Professor, Department of Criminal Justice
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago
Great Cities Institute Faculty Fellow 2003-2004
November 2005
GCP-05-03
This research briefly explores the idea of girl-on-girl violence and
argues that young women are indeed experiencing violence, but not necessarily
from each other, as much as from the effects of racism, sexism, misogyny,
homophobia, and poverty.
Before all
the Boys are Dead: Variation in Urban Violence
John Hagedorn
Professor of Criminal Justice
University of Illinois at Chicago and Great Cities Faculty Fellow
October 25, 2004
GCP-04-03
Homicide in Chicago has not dropped drastically as it has in New York
City. To understand why it is necessary to look at the reasons for variations
in violence globally: social exclusion, societal disruption, repression
of ethno-religous groups, and the institutionalization of groups of
armed young men.
Playing
with Race in Transnational Space: Rethinking Mestizaje
Marcia Farr
Professor of English and Education
Ohio State Univerisity and Former Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar
2001-2002
March 5, 2004
GCP-04-01
This paper explores the racial hierarchies of Mexico and the United
States and then how one social network of Mexican transnational families
does not fit neatly into the categories of each set. the paper concludes
with an analysis of tape recorded discourse among women traveling in
a van from Chicago to Mexico in which they joke about the ambiguity
of their place, or lack of it, in these hierarchies.
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