THE ETHNIC EXPERIENCE IN THE CITY
1997 Summer Institute
American University
July 19-25, 1997

        As long as the population of the United States has been nourished
by immigration, the city of New York has been the gateway to a new life
for migrants, voluntary and involuntary, and refugees.  In the streets of
New York, Irish, Italian, Chinese, Eastern European, Latino, and
Caribbean newcomers found their first residences, first jobs, first brush
with anti-foreign prejudice.  After Reconstruction, the descendants of
former Southern slaves migrated to New York to escape Jim Crow and
sharecropping.  "Ethnic Experience in the City" is designed to explore
this hidden history of New York City.

        Professors Alan Kraut of the Department of History and Ed Smith
of the Program in American Studies will lead participants in "The Ethnic
Experience in the City" as they use three New York neighborhoods -- the
Lower East Side of Manhattan, Harlem, and Spanish Harlem -- as
laboratories to study the urban ethnic experience over the past two
centuries.  Through lectures, walking tours, and ethnic restaurants,
students will sample the rich blend of cultures, ethnicities, and
religions of New York and some of its boroughs.  Participants will spend
a week in New York attending lectures at the Museum of the City of New
York and touring ethnic neighborhoods, following the footprints of
various immigrant groups.  Special assistance will be available for those
who wish to learn how to trace their family roots.  Those taking the
course for credit will spend the rest of the summer working on individual
research projects.

        The cost is $2,252.00 for undergraduate credit and $2,381.00 for
graduate credit.  Students interested in the non-credit option will pay
$1200.  This price includes a welcoming banquet, five box lunches, four
dinners in ethnic restaurants, and all transportation to and admission
fees for cultural and historical sites in New York City.

        Deadline for registration is June 13.  For more information about
the "The Ethnic Experience in the City," you may contact Administrative
Coordinator Elizabeth Stewart by phone at (202) 885-2421, by fax at (202)
885-1505, or by e-mail at [log in to unmask]


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Elizabeth Stewart
Office of Summer Sessions
McKinley 350
American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20016-8170

phone: (202) 885-2421
fax: (202) 885-1505
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http://www.american.edu/other.depts/summer