The Immigrant City
Select an aspect, scene, or situation from urban life that might be related to this week’s topic. Citing specific pages from both of the assigned readings for Week 10 (Foner’s “Transnationalism: Old and New” and Marshall’s “Jackson Heights”), create a new thread in the forum in which you reflect critically on the chosen situation (make sense of it, examining the deeper relationships and processes involved) by applying relevant concepts or contextual information drawn from the readings. Ask yourself how the readings might help you better understand the situation.
Your chosen situation might be:
a) Something you have personally experienced or witnessed firsthand in the course of everyday life in New York City;
b) An investigative story from a reliable journalistic source (article from an established, reputable newspaper or magazine); or
c) A situation described and discussed in any of the previous readings in this class.
