New York UniversityMultinational Institute of American Studies

Multinational Fulbright Institute on American Civilization

THE RECONCILIATION OF AMERICAN DIVERSITY WITH NATIONAL UNITY

Saturday, June 13

Arrival

Sunday, June 14

10:00 - 1:00 Administrative OrientationMeet in the lobby of Palladium and go to the offices of the Multinational Institute of American Studies.

2:00 – 4:00 Tour of NYU: Visit the libraries, sports facilities, book stores, computer banks, University eating facilities, Kimmel Center for University Life, etc.

Monday, June 15

9:00 - 10:30 Reconciliation of Diversity with National UnityMeet with Philip Hosay, Professor and Director 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

10:30 - 3:00 Disbursement of per diem allowances, registration at NYU I.D. Center, and receive accounts and/or travelers checks at Citibank.

3:00 – 5:00 Participant PresentationsRoundtable meeting of participants and staff to discuss the main issues concerning education and American studies in the countries of the participants.

7:00 - 9:00 Opening ReceptionMeet with other NYU officials, faculty, and graduate students.

Pless Hall Lounge, 82 Washington Square East

Assigned Reading: Thomas Bender, “Strategies of Narrative Synthesis in American History,” American Historical Review (February 2002), pp. 129-153; Heinz Ickstadt, “American Studies in an Age of Globalization,” American Quarterly 54.4 (2002) 543-562; Paul Giles and R.J. Elis, “E Pluribus Multitudium: The New World of Journal Publishing in American Studies,” American Quarterly 57.4 (2005).

Suggested Readings: 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 Americanzation of Cultural Studies,” Yale Journal of Criticism 4:2 (1991).

I. LOCAL AUTONOMY AND PLURALISM IN AMERICA

Tuesday, June 16

9:30 - 11:15 Creating Successful Communities in Early AmericaSpeaker: Karen Kupperman, Silver Professor, History, NYUConference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

1:00 – 3:30 Individual Research Interests Individual meetings with Multinational Institute of American Studies staff to

assist participants in locating scholarly resources and establishing contacts with relevant academics and other scholars in the New York metropolitan area. The 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.

4:00 - 5:15 Computer Telecommunications: Receive NYU e-mail accounts at NYU’s Information Technology Services, and orientation to NYU computer facilities. Leonid Litvin will conduct the orientation session.

6:00 – 8:00 Tour (free and optional): Visit Times Square.

Assigned Readings: Karen Kupperman, "International at the Creation:  Early Modern American History," in Thomas Bender, ed., Rethinking American History in a Global Age (2002), 103-23; Jane Landers, "Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose:  A Free Black Town in Spanish Colonial Florida," American Historical Review, 95 (1990); 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.

Recommended Readings: 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; David J. Silverman, "Indians, Missionaries, and Religious Translation:  Creating Wampanoag Christianity in Seventeenth-Century Martha's Vineyard," William and Mary Quarterly (2005), 141-74.

Suggested Readings: Sumner C. Powell, Puritan Village (1963), chps. 5-l0; 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); Frances FitzGerald, Cities on a Hill (1986), pp. 203-245.

Wednesday, June 17

10:00 – 12:00 New York Architecture, Urban Design and Community PlanningTour of Mid-Town Manhattan and lecture by Carol Krinsky, Professor, Art History, NYU. The tour will begin at Grand Central Terminal, a building which reflected a new appreciation of the importance of integrating architectural design with the needs of a booming urban community, and end at Rockefeller Center, a complex that is still regarded as one of the finest examples of urban planning in the world. The focus of this tour will be local zoning regulations, the impact of technology on city planning, and the achievements of private enterprise.

1:00 – 3:00 Lunch

Tap Room of the Torch Club for Faculty

2:00 – 3:45 The Search for Community in the American ImaginationSpeaker: Rene Arcilla, Professor, Philosophy and Humanities Education, NYU.Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

8:00 - 11:00 Theater (required): “Our Town”

Assigned Readings: Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country (1998).

Recommended Readings: Sacvan Bercovitch, The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America, 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.

Suggested Readings: Charles Newman, The Post-modern Aura: The Act of Fiction in an

Age of Inflation (1985); Philip Fisher, "American Literary and Cultural Studies since The Civil War" and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., "African American Criticism," in Stephen Greenblatt and Giles Gunn, eds., Redrawing the Boundaries.

Thursday, June 18 toSunday, June 21

Community in New EnglandTour of New England led by Elizabeth Hanauer and Donald Johnson, Professor Emeritus, International Education, NYU. You will depart via minivan on Thursday morning at 8:00 a.m. for Boston. In the afternoon you will visit Harvard University. That evening you will have dinner in downtown Boston. In Boston, you will stay at the Hilton Boston Financial Hotel. On Friday morning, Donald Johnson will take you on a walking tour, examining social cohesion from the perspective of the elite community of Beacon Hill, the transition of Boston's

North End from a colonial to an immigrant community, and the resurgence of the South End from an impoverished to an upper middle class community. On Saturday morning you will go to Deering, New Hampshire, stopping along the way to visit the outdoor industrial museum in Lowell, Massachusetts, where you will consider the impact of industrialization and immigration on traditional communal structures in New England. In Deering, a small agricultural community, you visit individual families in small groups, and have dinner with them. Later that evening you will attend a square dance in the Deering Town Hall. While visiting Deering you will be staying at the Maplehurst Inn in Antrim. On Sunday morning you will have breakfast at Don Johnson’s farm. That afternoon you will return to New York. The focus of this tour is the character of New England community.

Suggested Readings: William Cronon, Changes in the Land (1983) pp. 159-170; Norman Ware, The Industrial Worker (1924), pp. 1-25; Lawrence Grossman, The Electronic Republic (1996), pp. 3-49; Steven Jones, "Understanding Community in Information Age," in CyberSociety 2.0 : Revisiting Computer-Mediated Communication And Community (1998); 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 22

9:30 – 11:15 American Federalism and Local GovernanceSpeaker: Richard Pious, Ochs Professor of American Studies, Barnard College and Columbia University.Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

1:00 - 3:00 Local Community in New York: Greenwich Village and SoHo The focus of this tour, apart from a general orientation to the New York University community, will be how Americans continually root themselves in small homogeneous sub-communities, even in the midst of a large metropolis like New York City.

7:00 - 9:00 British Group Opening ReceptionMeet participants in the U.K. Summer Institute, NYU faculty, and graduate students.

Pless Hall Lounge, 82 Washington Square East

Assigned Readings: Gary Wills, Explaining America (1981), pp. 1-93; The Federalist Papers, nos. 10, 78, 81; Norval White, New York: A Physical History (1987), pp. 111-129; Neil Harris, Building Lives (1999), chps. 1, 3.

Recommended Readings: Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn’t (1996); William Jordy, American Buildings and Their Architects (1972), vol. 5,

pp., 221- 227; Daniel J. Elazar, "Opening the Third Century of American Federalism: Issues

and Prospects," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (May 1990).

Suggested Readings: Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. by Richard D.Heffner, pp. 49-58, 95-142, 189-220, 289-317; Robert P. Inman and Daniel L.

Rubinfeld, “Rethinking Federalism,” The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 11, No. 4. (Autumn, 1997), pp. 43-64; David B. Walker, "The Advent of an Ambiguous Federalism and the Emergence of New Federalism III," Public Administration Review (May/June 1996).

II. INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY AND THE AMERICAN CREED

Tuesday, June 23

9:30 - 11:30 The Constitutional Basis for Individual Rights in AmericaPanel discussion moderated by Richard Arum, Professor, Sociology, NYU. The members of the panel are: Robert Perry, Director, Legislative Department, New York Civil Liberties Union; Timothy Connors, Director, Center for Policing Terrorism, Manhattan Institute; Cristina Rodriguez, Professor, Law, NYU; Thomas Halper, Professor, Politics, Baruch College.Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

1:00 - 3:00 Bobst Library – Introduction to library data bases and research resources.

3:00 – 5:00 Individual Research

7:30 – 9:30 Concert (free and optional): Concerts in the Parks - Great Lawn in Central Park, Bramwell Tovey, Conductor, Shostakovich: Festive Overture, Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, Italian, Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Sousa: Selected Marches.

Assigned Readings: Daniel Boorstin, The Americans: The National Experience (1965), pp. 325-390; Richard J. Arneson, “Perfectionism and Politics,” Ethics (Oct., 2000), pp. 37-63.

Recommended Readings: Ronald Dworkin, "Affirmative Action: Does it Work?" and "Affirmative Action: Is it Fair?" in Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality (2002); David P. Forsythe, “United States Policy toward Enemy Detainees in the ‘War on Terrorism’," Human Rights Quarterly ( May 2006), pp. 465-491.

Suggested Readings: Richard Kluger, Simple Justice (1975); 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.

Wednesday, June 24

9:00 – 12:00 Individual Research

2:00 – 4:00 Religious Liberty and the American CreedPanel discussion moderated by Gabriel Moran, Professor, Philosophy of Education and Religion, NYU. Members of the panel are: Courtney Bender, Professor, Religion, Columbia University; Robert Seltzer, Professor, History, Hunter College, CUNY; Alyshia Galvez, Professor, Latin American Studies, Lehman College, CUNY. Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene

6:00 -8:00 Tour (free and optional): Visit to Ground Zero (World Trade Center site).

Assigned Readings: Winthrop S. Hudson, "Liberty, Both Civil and Religious," in Jerald Brauer, ed., The Lively Experiment Continued; 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).

Recommended Readings: 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, chps. 1-2; Martin E. Marty, "Religion: A Private Affair, in Public Affairs," Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation (Summer, 1993); Linda Pritchard, "The Spirit and the Flesh: Religion and Regional Economic Development," in Philip R. Vandermeer and Robert P. Swierenga, eds., Belief and Behavior: Essays in the New Religious History (1991); Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, “Muslims in U.S. Politics: Recognized and Integrated, or Seduced and Abandoned?,” SAIS Review (Summer-Fall 2001), pp. 91-102.

Thursday, June 25

9:30 – 11:15 Individualism and American Business EnterpriseSpeaker: George David Smith, Professor of Economics and Entrepreneurship, Stern Business School, NYU. Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

12:00 – 2:00 Lunch DiscussionConference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

2:00 - 4:00 Class Consciousness and Organized Labor in AmericaPanel discussion moderated by Joshua Freeman, Professor, History, Queens College, CUNY. Members of the panel are: Ida Torres, Secretary-Treasurer,

United Storeworkers Union, Local 3; Bill Henning, Vice President, Communications Workers of America, Local 1180; Heather Beaudoin, Political Director of the New York City Central Labor Council.Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

6:00 – 10:00 Concert (free and optional): Central Park SummerStage: Thievery Corporation (live) with Seue Jorge with Special Guests Bebel Gilberto & Federico Aubele.

Assigned Readings: Melvyn Dubofsky, Hard Work: The Making of Labor History (2000); 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).

Recommended ReadingsAnisya 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).

Suggested Readings: 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; Bruce Nissen, “Alternative Strategic Directions for the U.S. Labor Movement: Recent Scholarship,” Labor Studies Journal (Spring 2003), pp. 133-155.

Friday, June 26

9:30 - 11:15 Gender and Individualism in American CultureSpeaker: Lisa Stulberg, Professor, Sociology of Education, NYU,

Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

12:00 – 2:00 Lunch and Evaluation Session

2:00 – 4:00 Electronic Media, Censorship, and Individual PrivacyPanel discussion moderated by Frank Moretti, Professor, Communication and Education, Columbia University. Members of the panel are: Ralph Engelman, Chairman, Department of Journalism, Long Island University, and former Chairman of the Board, WBAI; Norman Siegel, civil rights attorney and former Executive Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union; Marilyn McMillan, Chief Information Technology Officer, Information Technology Services, NYU. Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

5:00- 8:00 MoMA (free and optional): Target Free Fridays.

Assigned Readings: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Feminism without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism (1991), chps. 6, 8; Laura R. Winsky Mattei, “Gender and Power in American Legislative Discourse, The Journal of Politics, (May, 1998), pp. 440-461; Richard Lanham, The Electronic Word (1993), pp. 98-137; Rosemary J. Coombe, “Culture Wars on the Net: Trademarks, Consumer Politics, and Corporate Accountability on the World Wide Web,” The South Atlantic (Fall 2001), pp. 919-947.

Recommended Readings: Nancy F. Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism(1987), chps. 3-4; Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers (1991), pp. 271-308; Lawrence Grossman, The Electronic Republic (1996), pp. 50-68; Daniel J. Solove and Marc Rotenberg, Information Privacy Law (2003).

Suggested Readings: Virginia Sapiro Women in American Society: An Introduction to Women's Studies (1998), chp. 8; Theresa de Lauretis, "Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities, an Introduction," in Differences, No.2, 1991; Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, "Writing History: Language, Class, and Gender," in Teresa De Lauretis, ed., Feminist Studies/Critical Studies (1986), pp. 31-54; bell hooks, Feminism Is For Everybody (2000); Esther Dyson, "If you don't love it, leave it" New York Times Magazine, July16, 1995; David E. Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940 (1990), pp. 339-391.

Saturday, June 27

Free DayAs this is one of only two free weekends in the program you may wish to use this time to catch up on reading, shopping, resting, or going to museums or the beach (staff will provide instructions on how to get to Jones Beach). Other free and optional activities on this day include Central Park SummerStage: Vieux Farka Toure, Fallou Dieng, Kaleta & ZoZo Afrobeat, from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM; Times Square Block Party, (on 46th Street from 7th - 8 th Avenue); Boogie Woogie Weight Loss, 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m., Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk.

Sunday, June 28

Free DayActivities that are free and optional on this day include some of the following: The Gay Pride Parade, which begins at 11:00 a.m. at the intersection of 5th Avenue and 52nd Street, and continues to Christopher and Greenwich streets; tour of the military history of Governors Island (ferries leave from Battery Maritime Building at 10:00 a.m.); Central Park SummerStage: Mosh Ben Ari, Rupa and The April Fishes, Y-Love DJ Diwon, from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM; Chess in Bryant Park, from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.; Farmers' Market, 12:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m., Greenstreet; Harlem Meer Performance Festival.

Monday, June 29

10:00 - 12:00 Poverty in America: Social Responsibility and Individual Self-Reliance Panel discussion moderated by Lawrence Mead, Professor, Politics, NYU.Members of the panel are: Marc Scott, Professor, Applied Statistics, Humanities

and the Social Sciences, NYU; Nancy A. Rankin, Director of Research, Community Service Society; David Chen, Executive Director, Chinese American Planning Council. Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

1:00 – 5:00 Individual Research

7:00 – 9:00 Author Presentation (free and optional): Philip Gourevitch, of the New Yorker, on

his book Standard Operating Procedure- Barnes & Noble, 82nd & Broadway.

Assigned Readings: James T. Patterson, America's Struggle Against Poverty in the Twentieth Century (2000), pp. 171-184, 210-223; Douglas J. Besharov, “The Past the Future of Welfare Reform,” The Public Interest (Winter 2003): 4-21.

Recommended Readings: Alberto Alesina, “Why Doesn't the United States Have a European-Style Welfare State?,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (2001, 2), pp. 187-277.

Suggested Readings: Michael Katz, In the Shadow of the Poorhouse (1996), pp. 251-292; Martin Gilens, Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy (1999), chps. 2, 8.

III. CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HETEROGENEITY

Tuesday, June 30 9:30 - 11:15 Immigration and Cultural Conflict

Speaker: Jonathan Zimmerman, Professor, History and History of Education, NYU

Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

12:00 - 5:00 Pluralistic Integration Tour of Sunnyside Gardens and the surrounding area in Queens, New York, conducted by Susan Meiklejohn, Professor of Urban Affairs and Regional Planning, Hunter College, CUNY. Sunnyside Gardens, a 16-block enclave in western Queens, was one of the first planned communities in urban America. It is now 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.

6:00 – 8:00 Exhibit (free and optional): A Railroad Reborn: Metro-North at 25. At the New York Transit Museum Gallery Annex and Store - Shuttle Passage.

Assigned Reading: David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1999), chps. 1 and 7.

Recommended Readings: Roger Sanjek, TheFuture of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City (1998); Stephen Thernstrom, The Other Bostonians: Poverty and Progress in the American Metropolis, 1880-1970, pp. 220-261.

Suggested Reading: John Higham, Send These to Me: Immigrants in Urban America (1984).

Wednesday, July 1

9:30 - 11:15 Recreating Community: The Black Migration from Farm to CitySpeaker: Gunja SenGupta, Professor, History Department, Brooklyn College.Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch Discussion in Harlem: Charles’ Restaurant in Harlem

2:00 - 5:00 Diversity in West HarlemTour of Harlem, including a meeting with the staff of Congressman Charles Rangel, the offices of the Inner City Broadcasting, WLIB/WBLS. W.P. Mohammed at the Masjid Malcolm Shabazz Mosque, an orthodox Muslim center, and the Community Association of Progressive Dominicans. 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.

7:00 – 9:00 Concert (free and optional): Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore: The Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company performs the HMS Pinafore with a full orchestra. At Woodhaven Boulevard at Forest Park Drive, Woodhaven, Queens.

Assigned Readings: Nicholas Lemann, The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America.

Recommended Readings: 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 Readings: Paul R. Spickard, “The Illogic of American Racial Categories,” in Maria P.P. Root, Racially Mixed People in America (1992); 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.

Thursday, July 2

9:30 - 11:30 Ethnicity, Race and Gender in American PoliticsPanel discussion moderated by Daniel Feldman, Special Counsel for Law and Policy, New York State Comptroller, and New York State Assemblyman. Members of the panel are: Ellis Henican, columnist, New York Newsday, and political analyst for Fox News; Ester Fuchs, Professor, Politics, Columbia University; Roscoe Brown, Director of the Center for Urban Education Policy and University Professor, City University of New York.Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

12:00 – 2:00 Lunch and Evaluation Session in Chinatown: review of lectures, field trips, and panels.

2:00 - 5:00 Chinatown: The Ethnic CommunityTour of Chinatown, including visits to the Chinatown Senior Center, the Chung Pak Day Care Center, and the Eastern States Buddhist Temple of America. 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 Tour (free and optional): Visit to Ground Zero (World Trade Center site).

Assigned Reading: Michael Dunne, “Black and White Unite? The Clinton-Obama Campaigns in

Historical Perspective,” The Political Quarterly (Jul-Sep 2008); Kavita Nandini Ramdas, “Leveraging the Power of Gender and Race,” The Nation (February, 21, 2008); Diane Winston, “Back to the Future: Religion, Politics, and the Media,” American Quarterly (September 2007),

pp. 969-989; Lawrence Bobo and Camille Charles, “Race in the American Mind: From the

Moynihan Report ot the Obama Candidacy,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2009).

Recommended Readings: 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. 439-456; 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; Joel L. Swerdlow, “New York’s Chinatown,” National Geographic (August, 1998).

Suggested Reading: Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, ed., The Muslims of America (1991); Andrew

Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (1992), pp. 3-30, 199-219; Philip Q. Yang, “Sojourners or Settlers: Post-1965 Chinese Immigrants,” Journal of Asian American Studies (February 1999), pp. 61-91.

Friday, July 3

9:00 – 11:00 Baseball Practice

12:00 – 5:00 Baseball (required): The New York Yankees vs. Toronto Blue Jays

Suggested Reading: Roger Angell, Once More Around the Park: A Baseball Reader (2001).

Saturday, July 4

10:00 – 1:00 July 4th: Celebration of American PluralismBrian Deimling, historian of Brooklyn and teacher at St. Ann’s School, will lead a tour of New York's July 4th festivities, including Brooklyn Heights, a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and various patriotic public performances in lower Manhattan. This session will focus on the ceremonial homage to American pluralism and the American democratic creed.

3:30 – 5:00 Concert (free and optional): Yo La Tengo, Lawn of Battery Park.

7:00 – 10:00 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular at the East River

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 DayAmong some of the free activities available on this day are the River to River Festival’s “Wall Street Walking Tour - a 90 minute guided walking tour

weavingtogether the history, events, architecture and people of Lower Manhattan – and the Summergarden Concert, which begins at sunset at the Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at MoMA. The music director of this series is Joel Sachs, who will

lecture later in the program on contemporary American art music.

Monday, July 6

9:00 – 12:00 Tour of Ellis Island

1:00 – 5:00 Individual Research

Assigned Reading: Lawrence H. Fuchs, The American Kaleidoscope (1990), pp. 1 34, 384-404.

Recommended Readings: David Hollinger, Postethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (1995.

Suggested Reading: David M. Reimers, Unwelcome Strangers : American Identity And The Turn Against Immigration (1998.

Tuesday, July 7 toSunday, July 12

Ethnicity on the American FrontierTour of Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, led by Elizabeth Hanauer and Philip Hosay. Following your visit in Albuquerque, you will travel directly to Santa Fe, stopping along the way at Madrid, an artist community reminiscent of communitarian settlements of the 1960's, and Cerrillos, a working class community that has not changed much since the 1880's. On Wednesday morning, you will tour historic Santa Fe, tracing through its architecture the successive waves of immigration that have left their mark on the character of the community. At noon you will meet with Veronica Garcia, New Mexico’s Secretary of Education, to discuss educational policies designed to promote multiculturalism in the schools. Late that afternoon you will discuss Native American history and culture with Margaret Connell-Szasz, Professor of History, University of Mexico. In the evening you will attend the Sante Fe Opera. On Thursday morning, you will tour the cliff dwellings at Bandelier National Monument. Afterwards, you will visit the Santa Clara Pueblo and meet with Governor Jeff Sisneros and members of the Council of Elders to discuss the ways in which Pueblo’s organize to lobby for legislation supported by the Indian communities. On Friday you will drive to Chimayo and visit the El Santurario de Nuestro Señor de Esquipulas, a small church ascribed with miraculous healing powers that serves the local Spanish community. After lunch at the Restaurante Rancho de Chimayo, you will take the "high road," along the edge of the Sangre Cristo Range, stopping briefly at Cordova and Truchas, both small working class Spanish towns known for their weaving industries, and then go on to the Kit Carson National Forest to Taos. In the evening you will go to the Sagebrush Inn to hear Country Western music and dance. On Saturday morning, you will tour the Taos Pueblo. Afterwards you will visit the Milllicent Rogers Museum’s collection of contemporary Native American art and Spanish-New Mexican art. That afternoon you can either return to Taos or drive to the Wild Rivers Recreation Area northwest of Questa, a pristine area where you can hike down an 800 foot gorge to where the Red

River and the Rio Grande meet. On Sunday, you will return to Albuquerque for your flight back to New York. The focus of this tour is patterns of ethnic confrontation and assimilation on the Western frontier. In Sante Fe you will stay at the Hilton Hotel, and in Taos you will stay at the Kachina Lodge.

Suggested Reading: Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop; "Mexican Americans I n 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. 30-49; 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.

IV. NATIONAL UNITY: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INTEGRATION

Monday, July 13

9:30 - 11:15 Inventing American CultureSpeaker: Steven C. Wheatley, Vice President, American Council of LearnedSocieties.Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

2:00 – 4:00 Postmodernism in AmericaPanel discussion moderated by Stacy Pies, Professor, Gallatin School, NYU. Members of the panel are: Ed Guerrero, Professor, Cinema Studies, NYU; Mark Johnson, artist and Director of Print Making, NYU; Robert Vorlicky, Professor of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

8:00-10:00 Concert (free and optional): Concerts in the Parks - Central Park (Great Lawn)Presented by Didi and Oscar Schafer, Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1, Beethoven: Symphony No. 4, Sibelius: Finlandia.  

Assigned Reading: Lawrence W. Levine, Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America (1990), pp. 169-242; Ann Douglas, Miriam Hansen, “The Mass Production of the Senses: Classical Cinema as Vernacular Modernism,” Modernism/Modernity (1999) pp. 59-77;

Recommended Reading: “Periodizing the American Century: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Postcolonialism in the Cold War Context,” Modernism/Modernity (September 1998), pp. 71-98; Marianne DeKoven, “Utopias Limited: Post-sixties and Postmodern American Fiction,” Modern Fiction Studies (Spring 1995), pp. 75-97.

Suggested Reading: Cornell West, "The Postmodern Crisis of the Black Intellectuals,"

in Cultural Studies, eds. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler (1992), pp. 689-705; David James, “Tradition and the Movies: The Asian American Avant-Garde in Los Angeles,” Journal of Asian American Studies (June, 1999), pp. 157-180.

Tuesday, July 14

8:00 - 11:00 Education and the American CharacterAshleigh White and Karleigh Koster will lead a tour of Hunter College High School. The participants will meet with teachers and students. The focus of this visit is the politics of multicultural education and the process of political socialization in America.

1:00 – 5:00 Individual Research

8:00 – 11:00 Concert (free and optional): Free outdoor classical music festival, Washington Square Park.

Assigned Readings: Bernard Bailyn, Education in the Forming of American Society (1960).

Recommended Reading: Martin Carnoy, “ Do School Vouchers Improve School Performance?,” American Prospect (January 1-15, 2001); Lawrence Cremin, Popular Education and Its Discontents (1990), pp. 1-50.

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); Mortimer J. Adler, The Paideia Proposal, rev.ed. (1998), pp. 15-45.

Wednesday, July 15

10:00 – 12:00 Diversity and Experimentation in American MusicPerformance and lecture by Joel Sachs, Director, Contemporary Music, The Julliard School, and Director of Continuum. Room 779, Education Building

1:00 – 3:00 American Art and IdentityTour of the Whitney Museum of American Art conducted by Kirsten Swenson. The tour will cover the Museum’s permanent collection, focusing on young American artists in the 1960’s who were particularly concerned with American popular culture and identity. You will also look at some seminal figures of American Art and representatives of artists who will be part of the “2008 Biennial Exhibition.”

3:00 – 5:00 Individual Research

8:00 - 11:00 Theater (required): “West Side Story”

Assigned Reading: New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001), vol. 19, pp. 424-452; Milton Brown, American Art: Paintings, Sculpture, Architecture and Decorative Arts (1979). Recommended Reading: "Charles Ives," New Grove Dictionary of American Music; Burton Peretti, The Creation of Jazz - Music, Race and Culture in Urban America (1994), chps. 3-4; Roy Shuker, Understanding Popular Music (1994), chps. 1, 6; Maxwell Anderson, "Foreword" to Lisa Phillips, The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000 (2000).

Suggested Reading: Lewis Erenberg, Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture (1998), chps. 4-5; Daniel Kingman, American Music; Beth Venn and Adam D. Weinberg, eds., Frames of Reference: Looking at American Art, 1900-1950 (1999); David Joselit, American Art since 1945 (2003).

Thursday, July 16

9:30 – 11:30 Mass Culture, the Media, and American PoliticsPanel 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; Steve Rendall, Senior Analyst, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; Rodney Benson, Professor, Culture and Communications, NYU. Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

1:00 – 5:00 Individual Research

7:00 -10:00 Concert (free and optional): Central Park SummerStage: Junot Diaz andAleksandar Hemon.

Assigned Reading: Joseph E Uscinski, “Too Close to Call? Uncertainty and Bias in Election-Night Reporting,” Social Science Quarterly (March 2007); Susan Herbst, “Political Authority in a Mediated Age,” Theory and Society (2003); 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.

Recommended Reading: Herbert Gans, Deciding What's News (1979), pp. 8-35, 146-155; John Fiske, Television Culture (1987), chp. 16; Vivian B. Martin, “Media Bias: Going Beyond Fair and Balanced,” Scientific American (November 2008).

Suggested Reading: 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; Pippa

Norris, “Does Television Erode Social Capital? A Reply to Putnam,” Political Science and Politics (Sep., 1996), pp. 474-480); Jonathan Fineberg, Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being (2000).

Friday, July 17

9:30 – 11:30 Interest Group Politics and the National InterestPanel discussion moderated by Galen Kirkland, Commissioner, New York State Division of Human Rights. The members of the panel are: William Donahue, President, The Catholic League for Religious Rights; Douglas Muzzio, Professor, Public Policy, Baruch College, City University of New York; Richard Harris, Professor, Politics, Rutgers University-Camden, and Director, Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs.Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

12:00 – 2:00 Lunch and Evaluation Session

2:00 – 5:00 Individual Research

7:00- 11:00 Party (free and optional): Summer on the Hudson: GlobeSonic Sound System Dance Party, Join hundreds of others who come to dance the night away at our open-air summer dance parties with the GlobeSonic Sound System DJs accompanied by the Body Temple Drummers. At Pier I at 70th Street.

Assigned Reading: John W. Kingdon, 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 .

Recommended Reading: 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.

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).

Saturday, July 18 toTuesday, July 21

The Democratic Process and National UnityTour of Washington, D.C. led by Philip Hosay. You will depart via train on Saturday morning at 7:30 a.m. for Washington. In Washington you will stay at the Mayflower Hotel. The afternoon 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 Sunday morning you may elect to observe a religious service, beginning at 10:45 a.m., at the Shiloh Baptist Church, a prominent African-American congregation in Washington. The afternoon will be free to tour the Washington Mall monuments and museums, Adams Morgan and Dupont Circle, Georgetown and Washington National Cathedral, or Old Town Alexandria and Arlington National Cemetery. That evening you will have dinner at Gadsby’s Tavern in Old Alexandria. On Monday morning, you will go to the State Department, from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m., to meet with officials in the Bureau of Educational Affairs. Following this you will meet with Congressman Zack Space, a Democrat from Ohio, and tour the Capitol building. The afternoon and the Tuesday morning will be free for individual appointments. On Tuesday afternoon you will take the train back to New York. 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: Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (2006), chp. 1; 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, The Rise 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.

Wednesday, July 22

9:30 – 11:15 The American Sense of Mission and Foreign PolicySpeaker: David Denoon, Professor, Politics, New York UniversityConference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

2:00 – 4:00 Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Future of American Foreign Policy Panel discussion moderated by Robert Jervis, Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of

International Politics, Columbia University. The members of the panel are: Norman Friedman, national security consultant, and former Director, National Security Services, Hudson Institute; Herbert London, President, Hudson Institute; Farhad Kazemi, Professor, Politics and Middle Eastern Studies, NYU.Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

7:00 -10:00 Concert (free and optional): Central Park SummerStage: Mark Knopfler.

Assigned Reading: Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword(1996), part I; Michael Hunt, Ideology and U.S. Foreign Policy (1987), chp. 5; James Chace, “The Death of American Internationalism,” The World Policy Journal (Spring 2003); James D. Fearon, "The United States Can't Win Iraq's Civil War." Foreign Affairs (March/April 2007); Michael O’Hanlon,“Toward Reconciliation in Afghanistan,” Washington Quarterly (2009);Stephen Graubard, “A Broader Agenda: Beyond Bush-Era Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs (Jan/Feb 2009).

Recommended Reading: Daniel W. Drezner, "The New New World Order." Foreign Affairs (March/April 2007); Christopher Layne, “The Unipolar Illusion Revisited: The Coming End of the United States' Unipolar Moment,” International Security (Fall 2006), pp. 7-41. William I. Robinson, “Globalization, the World System, and ‘Democracy Promotion’ in U.S. Foreign Policy,” Theory and Society (Oct., 1996), pp. 615-665; Thomas Carothers, “Promoting Democracy and Fighting Terror,” Foreign Affairs (January/February 2003); Corwin E. Smidt, “Religion and American Attitudes Toward Islam and an Invasion of Iraq,” Sociology of Religion (Fall 2005); Leslie H. Gelb and Justine A. Rosenthal, “The Rise of Ethics in Foreign Policy,” Foreign Affairs (May/June 2003); Joseph S. Nye, Jr ., “U.S. Power and Strategy After Iraq,” Foreign Affairs, (July/August 2003).

Suggested Reading: Felix Gilbert, The Beginnings of American Foreign Policy, pp. 115-137; Edward Berman, "Foundations, United States Foreign Policy and African Education, 1945-1975," Harvard Education Review (1979), 145-179; Anders Stephanson, Manifest Destiny: American Expansion and the Empire of Right (1995); James M. Lindsay et al., "Determinants of Presidential Foreign Policy Choice," American Politics Quarterly (January, 1992); Daniel Byman, “Constructing a Democratic Iraq: Challenges and Opportunities,” International Security (Summer 2003), pp. 47-78; Christopher Layne, “The Unipolar Illusion Revisited: The Coming End of the United States' Unipolar Moment,” International Security (Fall 2006), pp. 7-41; Theo Farrell, “Strategic Culture and American Empire,” SAIS Review (Summer-Fall, 2005).

Thursday, July 23

9:30 - 11:15 The Globalization of American MediaLecturer: Ted Magder, Professor and Chair, Culture and Communications, NYU.Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

1:00 - 5:00 Individual Research

8:00 - 10:00 Theater (free and optional): Public Theater Shakespeare in Central Park

Assigned Reading: Mel van Elteren, “U.S. Cultural Imperialism: Today Only a Chimera,” SAIS Review (Summer-Fall 2003), pp. 169-188; Shujen Wang, “Recontextualizing Copyright: Piracy, Hollywood, the State, and Globalization,” Cinema Journal (Fall 2003), pp. 25-43; David Ryfe, “The Future of Media Politics,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs (Winter 2007), pp. 723-738.

Recommended Reading: Ithiel de Sola Pool, Technologies without Boundaries (1990), pp.101-148; Benjamin Barber, Jihad vs. McWorld (1995), pp. 137-151, 219-246.

Suggested Reading: Herbert Schiller Information Inequality (1996), pp. 91-109; Mel van Elteren, "Conceptualizing the Impact of US Popular Culture Globally," Journal of Popular Culture (Summer 1996); Bettig, R. V. "The Enclosure of Cyberspace," Critical Studies in Mass Communication (1997), 138-157.

Friday, July 24

9:30 - 11:30 America: A Model for the World?Panel discussion moderated by Arthur Zegelbone, public diplomacy consultant and retired Foreign Service Officer. Members of the panel are: Carolyn Sorkin, Director, International Studies, Wesleyan University; Shamil Idriss, Deputy Director, Office of Alliance of Civilizations, United Nations; Brian Gibson, Assistant Dean for International and Comparative Programs, Law School, Columbia University.Conference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

1:00 - 5:00 Evaluation MeetingConference Room, 3rd Floor, 246 Greene Street

8:00 - 11:00 Concluding CelebrationDinner and party at the home of Philip Hosay, 100 Bleecker Street, Apartment 6A, where the participants will receive a “Certificate in American Studies” from the New York University Multinational Institute of American Studies.

Assigned Reading: Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1997); Liam Kennedy, “Enduring Freedom: Public Diplomacy and U.S. Foreign Policy,”American Quarterly (June 2005), pp. 309-333; Hady Amr and P.W. Singer, “To Win the ‘War on Terror,"’We Must First Win the ‘War of Ideas’: Here's How,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (July 2008); Francis Fukuyama and Michael McFaul, “Should Democracy Be Promoted or Demoted,” Washington Quarterly (2009).

Recommended Reading: David Apter, Rethinking Development: Modernization, Dependency, and Post-modern Politics (1987), pp. 12-48; Thomas Carothers, Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve (1999), chps. 2, 4, 12; Thomas M. Franck, “Is Personal Freedom a Western Value?” American Journal of International Law, Volume 91, Issue 4 (Oct., 1997).

Suggested Reading: Christopher Ross, “Public Diplomacy Comes of Age,” The Washington Quarterly 25.2 (2002); Roxanne L. Euben, "Comparative Political Theory: An Islamic Fundamentalist Critique of Rationalism," The Journal of Politics, Volume 59, Issue 1 (Feb., 1997); Strobe Talbott, "Democracy and the National Interest," Foreign

Affairs (November/December, 1996).

Saturday, July 25

Free (Shopping, packing and shipping books, etc.)

Sunday, July 26

Departure