| HIS 6413 |
Harvey J. Graff
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| Summer I, 1999 |
HSS 4.04.54; 458-4372
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| M-R, 2:45-4:35 |
hgraff@utsa.edu
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Office hrs: T,R 1-2, appointments
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In seminar format, this course offers a collective exploration of the bases, dimensions, and processes that underlay the development of what we too easily and uncritically term "modern culture." Specifically, we consider the transformation of urban space and place during the epochal era from the late eighteenth through the mid-to late-twentieth centuries. In the process, we critically probe the meanings of both "urban" and "culture" in concrete social and political economic contexts, evaluating alternative formulations and relationships as we search for an integrating understanding. Among the elements of the complex historical interaction we seek to understand are: social class, gender, ethnicity and race, geographic space and sociocultural space, accumulation and display, architecture, institutions, technologies, cultural hierarchies (in actuality and symbolically) and relationships, cultural politics, and political economics. Among our organizing questions are those that surround notions of mass or class cultures, integration vs. fragmentation, separate spheres, private vs. public spaces, commercial cultures, control vs. freedom, and the futures of both culture and cities. Our realm is the historical; our questions, tools, and theories are interdisciplinary; the boundaries to the inquiry are those we set together in search of "urban culture".
To receive support services, students with disabilities must register with the Office of Disability Services (MS 2.03.18; 458-4157-voice; 458-4981-TTY)
Scholastic honesty is expected and required. Information on scholastic dishonesty, including plagiarism, is provided in the Student Handbook. See also the statement in the UTSA Graduate Catalog. When in doubt, consult the instructor.
Requirements:
Regular reading, attendance, and participation in seminar; oral reports on assigned readings; brief research proposal
Books ordered for the bookstores:
Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (Temple, 1986)
William R. Taylor, In Pursuit of Gotham (Oxford, 1992)
Michael Sorkin, ed., Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space (Hill & Wang, 1992)
| HIS 6413 | Harvey J. Graff |
The Culture of Cities
W, 6/2 "The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces" (55 mins.)
R, 6/3 "The City" (1939; 45 mins.)
*Neil Harris, "Four Stages of Cultural Growth: The American City," in his Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America (Chicago, 1990), Ch. 1, 12-28
*Harvey J. Graff, "The City, Crisis, and Change in American Culture," in Transitions to the 21st Century, ed. Norman Glickman and Donald Hicks (JAI Press, 1983), 113-152
*Sam Bass Warner, Jr., "The Management of Multiple Urban Images," in The Pursuit of Urban History, ed. Derek Fraser and Anthony Sutcliffe (Edward Arnold, 1983), 383-394
*Daniel Calhoun, "The City as Teacher," History of Education Quarterly, 9 (1969), 312-325
*Kathleen D. McCarthy, "Creating the American Athens: Cities, Cultural Institutions, and the Arts, 1840-1930," American Quarterly, 37 (1985), 426-439
*Timothy J. Gilfoyle, "White Cities, Linguistic Turns, and Disneylands: The New Paradigms of Urban History," Reviews in American History, 26 (1998) 175-204
Thomas Bender, Community and Social Change in America (Johns Hopkins, 1978)
Ira Katznelson, Marxism and the City (Oxford, 1992)
David Harvey, The Urban Experience (Johns Hopkins, 1989)
M, 6/7 "The Five Points" (American Social History Project, 25 mins.)
T, 6/8 Seminar Session
W, 6/9 Library research
R, 6/10 "Coney Island" (American Experience; 60 mins.)
*Mary Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class (Cambridge, 1979), chs. 4 & 5
*Christine Stansell, "Women, Children, and the Uses of the Streets," Feminist Studies, 8 (1982), 309-335
*John Kasson, "Civility and Rudeness: Urban Etiquette and the Bourgeois Social Order in Nineteenth-Century America," Prospects, 9 (1984), 143-167
*David Scobey, "Anatomy of the Promenade: The Politics of Bourgeois Sociability in Nineteenth-Century New York," Social History, 17 (1992), 203-227
_____, Metropolitan Intellect (Knopf, 19 )
Stuart Blumin, The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760-1900 (Cambridge UP, 1989)
Mary Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class (Cambridge, 1979)
_____, Civic Wars: Democracy and Public Life in the American City During the Nineteenth Century (California, 1997)
Richard Stott, Workers in the Metropolis (Cornell, 1990)
Michael B. Katz, Michael Doucet, and Mark Stern, The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism (Harvard, 1983)
David Ward, Poverty, Ethnicity, and the American City, 1840-1925: Changing Conceptions of the Slum and the Ghetto (Cambridge, 1989)
Neil Harris, Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America (Chicago, 1990)
Helen Horowitz, Culture and the City: Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago, 1880s to 1917 (Kentucky, 1976)
Lawrence Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (Harvard, 1988)
John Kasson, Rudeness and Civility (Hill & Wang, 1990)
_____, Amusing the Million (Penguin, 1978)
Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar, The Park and the People: A History of Central Park (Cornell, 1992)
Timothy Gilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex (Norton, 1992)
Mary Ryan, "Gender and Public Access: Women's Politics in Nineteenth-Century America," in Habermas and the Public Sphere, ed. Craig Calhoun (MIT Press, 1992), 259-288
Mary Ryan, Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 (Johns Hopkins, 1990)
Sarah Deutsch, "Reconceiving the City: Women, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1910," Gender and History, 6, 2 (August, 1994), 202-223
Elizabeth Wilson, "The Invisible Flaneur," New Left Review, no. 191 (1992), 90-110
Hazel V. Carby, "Policing the Black Woman's Body in an Urban Culture," Critical Inquiry 18 (1992), 738-755
Kathleen D. McCarthy, Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930 (Chicago, 1991
Elizabeth Wilson, The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women (California, 1992)
Philip J. Ethington, "Recasting Urban Political History: Gender, the Public, the Household, and Political Participation in Boston and San Francisco during the Progressive Era," Social Science History 16 (1992), 301-333
Andrea Kornbluh, "City Sex: Views of American Women and Urban Culture, 1869 to 1890," Urban History Yearbook, 18 (1991), 60-83
M, 6/14 "Proud Towers" (Pride of Place, 55 mins.)
T, 6/15 Library research or "Going to Chicago" (70 mins.)
W, 6/16 "Suburbs: Arcadia for Everyone" (Pride of Place, 55 mins.)
R, 6/17 "Mission Hill and the Miracle of Boston" (60 mins.)
Select from:
*Roy Rosenzweig, "Middle-Class Parks and Working-Class Play," Radical History Review, 21 (1979), 31-48
*Frank Couvares, "The Triumph of Commerce: Class Culture and Mass Culture in Pittsburgh," in Working-Class America, ed. Michael Frisch and Daniel Walkowitz (Illinois, 1983), 123-152
*Lisabeth Cohen, "Encountering Mass Culture at the Grassroots: The Experience of Chicago Workers in the 1920s," American Quarterly, 41 (1989), 6-33
William R. Taylor, In Pursuit of Gotham: Culture and Commerce in New York (Oxford UP, 1992), esp. chs. 1, 2, 3
*Michael Ebner, "Re-Reading Suburban America," American Quarterly, 37 (1985), 368-381 OR
*Carol O'Connor, "Sorting Out the Suburbs: Patterns of Land Use, Class, and Culture," American Quarterly, 37 (1985), 382-394
Kathleen N. Conzen, et al, "The Invention of Ethnicity," Journal of American Ethnic History, 12 (1992), 3-63
Olivier Zunz, The Changing Face of Inequality . . . Detroit (Chicago, 1982)
Donna Gabaccia, From Sicily to Elizabeth Street (Albany, 1984)
David Gerber, The Making of American Pluralism . . . Buffalo (Urbana, 1989)
Kenneth Goings and Raymond A. Mohl, es., The New African American Urban History (Sage, 1996)
James R. Grossman, Land of Hope: Chicago, Black Southerners, and the Great Migration (Chicago, 1989)
Joe W. Trotter, ed., The Great Migration in Comparative Perspective (Indiana, 1991)
James Borchert, Alley Life in Washington, D.C. (Illinois, 1980)
Kenneth Kusmer, A Ghetto Takes Shape (Illinois, 1976)
Elizabeth Pleck, Black Migration and Poverty (Academic, 1979)
Joe W. Trotter, Black Milwaukee (Illinois, 1985)
Alan Spear, Black Chicago (Chicago, 1967)
Thomas Philpot,The Slum and the Ghetto (Oxford, 1978)
Nathan Huggins, The Harlem Renaissance (1971)
David Levering Lewis, When Harlem Was in Vogue (Vintage, 1981)
George Sanchez, Becoming Mexican American (Oxford, 1993)
Albert Camarillo, Chicanos in a Changing Society (Harvard, 1979)
Richard Griswold del Castillo, The Los Angeles Barrio (California, 1982)
Elaine Abelson, When Ladies Go A-Thieving: Middle-Class Shoplifters in the Victorian Department Store (Oxford, 1989), Introduction, Ch. 1 "Urban Women and the Emergence of Shopping," and Ch. 2 "The World of the Store," 1-12, 13-41, 42-62
Susan Porter Benson, "Palace of Consumption and Machine for Selling," Radical History Review, 21 (1979), 199-221
Jackson Lears, "From Salvation to Self-Realization: Advertising and the Therapeutic Roots of the Consumer Culture, 1880-1930," in The Culture of Consumption, ed. Richard W. Fox and Lears (Pantheon, 1983), 1-38
William R. Taylor, In Pursuit of Gotham: Culture and Commerce in New York (Oxford UP, 1992)
William R. Taylor, ed., Inventing Times Square (Russell Sage, 1991), esp. Richard W. Fox, "The Discipline of Amusement," 83-98; Jean-Christophe Agnew, "Times Square: Secularization and Sacralization," 2-13; and selections from Pts II, III, IV
William Leach, Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (Pantheon, 1993)
Simon Bronner, ed., Consuming Visions: Accumulation and Display of Goods in America, 1880-1920 (Norton, 1989)
William R. Taylor, ed., Inventing Times Square (Russell Sage, 1991)
Robert Snyder, The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York, 1880-1930 (Oxford UP, 1990)
Lewis Ehrenberg, Steppin' Out (Greenwood, 1981)
Lary May, Screening Out the Past (Oxford UP, 1980)
John Kasson, Amusing the Million (Hill & Wang, 1978)
David Nasaw, Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements (Basic, 1993)
Margaret Marsh, Suburban Lives (Rutgers, 1990)
Sam Bass Warner, Jr., Streetcar Suburbs (Harvard, 1962)
Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier (Oxford, 1985)
Henry Binford, The First Suburbs (Chicago, 1984)
Carol O'Connor, A Sort of Utopia (SUNY, 1984)
Robert Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias (Basic, 1987)
Clifford Clark Jr., The American Family Home (North Carolina, 1986)
Gwendolyn Wright, Moralism and the Model Home (Chicago, 1980)
Barbara Kelly, Expanding the American Dream. . . Levittown (SUNY, 1993)
Herbert Gans, "Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life," in American Urban History, ed. A.B. Callow (Oxford, 1973, 2nd ed.), 507-521
Classic works: Herbert Gans, Robert Woods, Bennett Berger, John Seeley
M, 6/21 Research/Consultation
T, 6/22 "Style Wars" (69 mins.)
W, 6/23 Research/Consultation
R, 6/24 Seminar session
*Sharon Zukin, "The Hollow Center: U.S. Cities in the Global Era," in America at Century's End, ed. Alan Wolfe (California, 1991), 245-261, 526-528
*Ada Louise Huxtable, "Inventing American Reality," New York Review, 3 Dec. 1992, 24-29
*Joan Dideon, "New York: Sentimental Journeys," New York Review, 17 Jan. 1991, 45-56
*William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock, "Bold New City or Built-Up 'Burb? Redefining Contemporary Suburbia," American Quarterly, 46, 1 (March, 1994), 1-30, and responses by Robert Bruegmann, Robert Fishman, Margaret Marsh, June Manning Thomas, 31-54, and Response by Sharpe and Wallock, 55-61.
Nancy Fraser,"Rethinking the Public Sphere," Social Text, 25/26 (1990), 56-80
William Gass, "The Face of the City," Harpers, March, 1986, 37-46
AHR Forum, "Shopping Malls in America," with Lisabeth Cohen, Thomas Hanchett, and Kenneth Jackson, American Historical Review, 101, 4 (Oct., 1996), 1050-1121
Sharon Zukin, Landscapes of Power (California, 1991)
_____, The Cultures of Cities (Blackwell, 1995)
Carl Abbott, The New Urban America (North Carolina, 1987)
_____, The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West (Arizona, 1987)
John Findlay, Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture (California, 1992)
Deborah Dash Moore, To the Golden Cities (Free Press, 1994)
"Public Space: Urbanity, Streets, Costs," Dissent, Fall, 1986, 470-494
"Whatever Became of the Public Square," Harpers, July, 1990, 49-60
Craig Calhoun, ed., Habermas and the Public Sphere (MIT, )
Mike Davis, City of Quartz. . . Los Angeles (Verso, 1990)
_____, Ecology of Fear (Metropolitan, 1998)
Edward Soja, Postmodern Geographies (Verso, 1989)
A. Portes and A. Stepick, City on the Edge. . . Miami (California, 1993)
David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity (Blackwell, 1989)
Neil Smith, The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the Revanchist City (Routledge, 1996)
Anthony D. King, ed., Re-Presenting the City (NYU, 1996)
Rob Kling, Spencer Olin, and Mark Poster, eds., Postsuburban California (California, 1991)
Charles Rutheiser, Imagineering Atlanta (Verso, 1996)
Michael Dear, ed., Rethinking Los Angeles (Sage, 1997)
Nan Ellin, Postmodern Urbanism (Blackwell, 1996)
T, 6/29 Research/Consultation
W, 6/30 Presentation of research proposals
R, 7/1 Presentation of research proposals/Proposals Due
| HIS 6413 | Summer, 1999 | Harvey J. Graff |
The major written requirement for this course is a formal proposal for a research project. Proposals should be no longer than eight to ten (8-10) double-spaced, typewritten pages, and no shorter than about six (6) pages. Your topic should fall within the general scope (broadly defined) of urban studies. Although you may not actually conduct all the research you propose, draft the paper, or otherwise complete the project, preparing a formal research proposal still provides a valuable experience in your academic training, one useful and applicable to many other scholastic or nonacademic tasks.
For this assignment, you will propose formally the research for a paper of, say, 25-30 pages or an M.A. thesis. Proposals take a variety of general forms, formats, and organizations. Nevertheless, all research proposals address these key concerns:
2) discussing briefly the intellectual context of the subject or background to the research proposed--often in the form of a "literature search" and/or a comment on previous studies and approaches to the subject;
3) explaining your own distinctive approach or research strategy, with specific attention to your assumptions and use of specific theorical and critical approaches, your questions and/or hypothesis(es), the ways in which your research can be distinguished from that of other researchers;
4) the sources that you anticipate using, and a sense of the problems they will present to you and their special usefulness for understanding the subject and answering the questions you propose;
5) the methods you expect to employ to probe those sources; and
6) the anticipated results or outcome (say, on the one hand, what you hope to learn and the contribution you might make, and, on the other hand, the kind of paper or project you might use to present the results to a larger audience, including, for example, an M.A. supervising committee).
The instructor, within the limits of his knowledge and imagination should be considered one of your resources; so, too, are your other professors and your peers in the program. We will discuss your work toward proposals, as possible, in class and provide some time for progress reports and raising general questions.
Note: All written work for this course should be conducted with gender-neutral, nonsexist language and rhetorical constructions. It is my strong preference that class discussion and oral reports also be gender-neutral and nonsexist. This is part of a seminar situation in which full respect and opportunity are accorded by and to all participants by all others. The collegial relationships begun in the classroom should accompany our relevant relationships with each other elsewhere as well.
Written work should be turned in without cover pages or special folders. Simply put your name and course identification on the top of the first page and staple in upper left corner. If you use a dot-matrix printer, please ensure that the ribbon is new and of good quality; papers with faint or blurry print will not be read. You may use any system for annotation, foot- or endnotes, bibliography, and the like, that you know or prefer, provided that it is one accepted within the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities, and that you use it correctly and consistently. Most common, of course, are University of Chicago/Turabian and MLA. Various style sheets and guidebooks are sold in the campus bookstore and most other bookstores.
No written work will be accepted late unless very unusual circumstances arise or permission is granted in advance of the time the paper is due.
Please provide a stamped, self-addressed envelope so your research proposals can be returned to you after the semester.