Unit VII, Part One: "LITTLE CITIES:" (Im) Migrant Communities of
Resistance
- WRITTEN TEXTS:
- FILM/VIDEO TEXTS:
- Film Clips: Tillman, Soul Food
Resources on Soul Food
Soul Food Homepage
- Video Clips: Littly Italy, Italian Americans, Pilsen Via Crucis
and St. Helen Corpus Christi Processions
- DISCUSSION TOPICS: What is Vernacular Architecture? The Radical Possibilities
of Everyday City Life: Counter-Hegemonic Urban Narratives
- EXTRA RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE AMBITIOUS:
- "Ethnic Life in Chicago," Introduction to Ethnic Chicago, Holli
and Jones
- Brooklyn's
Dancing Tower by Sheldon Posen, Joseph Sciorra, & Martha Cooper
- Dominic Pacyga, "Chicago’s Ethnic Neighborhoods," in Holli and Jones
Ethnic Chicago
- Films: Martin Scorsese, Italian American; I Remember Harlem; Janusz
Zaorksi, Merry Christmas and Happy New York (Szczesliwego Nowego
Jorku)
- Film Clips: Francis Ford Coppola, Godfather II, Resources on
Godfather II
- Video: Little Italy; The Polish Americans; Stud’s
Terkel’s Chicago
- STUDY GUIDE for Unit VII Readings and AudioVisual