Jerome Krase
My current work looks at how ordinary people change the meanings of spaces and places by changing what those spaces and places look like.
I am Murray Koppelman Professor, and Professor Emeritus, at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. I received my BA in Sociology at Indiana University (1967) and my Ph.D. at New York University (1973). I think of myself as a public activist-scholar and serve as a consultant to public and private agencies regarding urban community issues. I twice chaired the Brooklyn College Sociology Department. My urban community interests have expanded globally into visual semiotic studies of urban neighborhood communities about which I research, photograph, write, lecture and exhibit. I am active in the American, European, and International Sociological Associations, International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA), Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Human Rights Coalition, and Commission on Urban Anthropology. I am Vice-President, Academy of Humanities and Sciences of CUNY nd chair of its Feliks Gross Seminar on Visual and Urban Ethnography, Treasurer, ISA’s Visual Sociology Working Group, IVSA Executive Board Member, Co-Editor of Urbanities, and Editorial Board Member of Visual Studies, and CIDADES.
I am Murray Koppelman Professor, and Professor Emeritus, at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York. I received my BA in Sociology at Indiana University (1967) and my Ph.D. at New York University (1973). I think of myself as a public activist-scholar and serve as a consultant to public and private agencies regarding urban community issues. I twice chaired the Brooklyn College Sociology Department. My urban community interests have expanded globally into visual semiotic studies of urban neighborhood communities about which I research, photograph, write, lecture and exhibit. I am active in the American, European, and International Sociological Associations, International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA), Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Human Rights Coalition, and Commission on Urban Anthropology. I am Vice-President, Academy of Humanities and Sciences of CUNY nd chair of its Feliks Gross Seminar on Visual and Urban Ethnography, Treasurer, ISA’s Visual Sociology Working Group, IVSA Executive Board Member, Co-Editor of Urbanities, and Editorial Board Member of Visual Studies, and CIDADES.
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The image of Brooklyn as a whole, as well as its well-known individual neighborhoods such as Flatbush and Coney Island, has always been a powerful independent force in creating and maintaining its concrete reality. Today, in 2015, Brooklyn by all accounts in the popular media is decidedly an “in” place. It occupies an elevated status as a gem in the crown of a Global City and is fast becoming a popular tourist destination in its own right. By almost every measure the “Borough of churches” has moved far beyond “renaissance” and “revival” to enjoy a hard earned, successfully promoted, chic and hip image that is presented to the rest of the world. As opposed to the “bad old days” in the 1960s and 1970s the major challenges likely to confront local community and political leaders in the Twenty-first Century arise from such “problems” as the rising cost of housing resulting from upscale gentrification by which investors compete for any available development space. A few decades ago the problems were exactly the opposite. No one at that time could have ever imagined a hip travel guide, Lonely Planet, would name Brooklyn as one of the top world destinations for 2007 (Kurtzman 2007).
live and work within them. In contemporary urban areas, all sorts of diversity are simultaneously increased and concentrated, chief amongst them in recent years being the ethnic and racial transformation produced by migration and the gentrification of once socially marginal areas of the city.
Seeing Cities Change demonstrates the utility of a visual approach and the study of ordinary streetscapes to document and analyse how the built environment reflects the changing cultural and class identities of neighborhood residents. Discussing the manner in which these changes relate to issues of local and national identities and multiculturalism, it presents studies of various cities on both sides of the Atlantic to show how global forces and the competition between urban residents in 'contested terrains' is changing the faces of cities around the globe.
Blending together a variety of sources from scholarly and mass media, this engaging volume focuses on the importance of
'seeing' and, in its consideration of questions of migration, ethnicity, diversity, community, identity, class and culture,will
appeal to sociologists, anthropologists and geographers with interests in visual methods and urban spaces.""""
The major theoretical theme of the book is the complex relationship between cultural symbols and societal structures which are embodied in the concrete entities of society--people, buildings, streets, maps and all forms of human settlements. One particular aspect of this general relationship is the interaction between self-images and the social meanings of the neighborhood communities in which people live. It is one of those many social phenomena "taken for granted" as part of everyday life and seldom analyzed, but nevertheless influential in the social construction of local community realities.
Although many social scientists have written about the relationship between the self and others, few have focused on the self-territorial community relation. George Herbert Mead had indirectly considered this relation of self and community in a discussion of William James and the question of consciousness. James had given an example of a person entering a house. The house has a history and the person who enters becomes part of its history. The house, simultaneously, becomes part of the person's history.1 What I have done in this work is to attempt to synthesize the many ideas of self and community from several disciplines and perspectives to form what I hope is a contribution to understanding this important dimension of human social life. "
Contents
Introduction. (J. Krase, R. Hutchison). Visualizing Ethnic Vernacular Landscapes. (J. Krase). Immigrant Global Neighborhoods in New York City. (T. Hum). The Muslim Chronopolis and Diasporic Temporality. (M.S. Laguerre). 'The game behind the game': Spatial Politics and Spike Lee's_He Got Game_. (J. Geiger). Being Racialized Ethnics: Second Generation West Indian Immigrants in NYC. (S-A. P. Butterfield). Titi Yeya's Memories: A Matriarch of the Puerto Rican Migration. (D.A. Badillo). The Decline of the Public Sphere: A Semiotic Analysis of the Rhetoric of Race in New York City. (T. Shortell). Emergent African Immigrant Philanthropy in New York City. (M.O. Okome). Relations Between the Jewish and Caribbean American Communities in New York City: Perceptions, Conflict and Cooperation. (H. Henke, J.A.G. Irish). The Caribbean Nation-State in Brooklyn Politics: An Examination of The Una Clarke Major Owens Congressional Race. (E. Brown). Little Italy: Resisting the Asian Invasion, 1965-1995. (P.F. Napoli). Changing Racial Conceptualizations: Greek Americans in NYC. (A. Karpathakis, V. Roudometof).
The papers presented here deal with the general topic of immigrant communities in metropolitan regions across the globe – but they do so from many different perspectives and by employing various methodologies. They include theoretical studies of immigration, globalization, and diaspora as well as case studies of immigration and ethnic communities within particular countries and individual cities. The methodologies employed include survey research, secondary analysis of survey data, participant observation, fieldwork and ethnography, and photo documentary. Once again the diversity of the field and subject matter – indeed the global reach of our subject and discipline – produces significant results in a volume that is expansive in method, theory, and example.
Full information about the book is available
online: http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?K=9780762313211
Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World is the Volume 8 in Elsevier’s Research and Urban Sociology Series. The series addresses the major subject areas of urban sociology, ethnic and minority groups within the city, social network of urban residents, location of retail and industrial activities within the metropolitan complex, decline of the central cities and emergence of suburban lifestyles, and the core question of community integration itself.
Contents
Ethnic Landscapes in a Global World
Introduction (R. Hutchison and J. Krase)
The Earth’s Inhabitants Scattered (S. Weil)
Diasporic Globalization (M. Laguerre)
Multicultural City (V. Marotta)
Migration and New Urban Ethnic Minorities (N. Magnani)
Immigrant Global Neighborhoods (J. Krase and T. Hum
Caribbean Immigrants in Toronto (J. Teelucksingh)
Segregation and Attachment to Place (G. Mesch)
Amayra Migrants (J. Crowder)
Koreans in Japan (D. Rands)
Expatriate Ethnoscapes (W. Leggett)
Social Inequality in Bulgaria (S. Histova)
The image of Brooklyn as a whole, as well as its well-known individual neighborhoods such as Flatbush and Coney Island, has always been a powerful independent force in creating and maintaining its concrete reality. Today, in 2015, Brooklyn by all accounts in the popular media is decidedly an “in” place. It occupies an elevated status as a gem in the crown of a Global City and is fast becoming a popular tourist destination in its own right. By almost every measure the “Borough of churches” has moved far beyond “renaissance” and “revival” to enjoy a hard earned, successfully promoted, chic and hip image that is presented to the rest of the world. As opposed to the “bad old days” in the 1960s and 1970s the major challenges likely to confront local community and political leaders in the Twenty-first Century arise from such “problems” as the rising cost of housing resulting from upscale gentrification by which investors compete for any available development space. A few decades ago the problems were exactly the opposite. No one at that time could have ever imagined a hip travel guide, Lonely Planet, would name Brooklyn as one of the top world destinations for 2007 (Kurtzman 2007).
live and work within them. In contemporary urban areas, all sorts of diversity are simultaneously increased and concentrated, chief amongst them in recent years being the ethnic and racial transformation produced by migration and the gentrification of once socially marginal areas of the city.
Seeing Cities Change demonstrates the utility of a visual approach and the study of ordinary streetscapes to document and analyse how the built environment reflects the changing cultural and class identities of neighborhood residents. Discussing the manner in which these changes relate to issues of local and national identities and multiculturalism, it presents studies of various cities on both sides of the Atlantic to show how global forces and the competition between urban residents in 'contested terrains' is changing the faces of cities around the globe.
Blending together a variety of sources from scholarly and mass media, this engaging volume focuses on the importance of
'seeing' and, in its consideration of questions of migration, ethnicity, diversity, community, identity, class and culture,will
appeal to sociologists, anthropologists and geographers with interests in visual methods and urban spaces.""""
The major theoretical theme of the book is the complex relationship between cultural symbols and societal structures which are embodied in the concrete entities of society--people, buildings, streets, maps and all forms of human settlements. One particular aspect of this general relationship is the interaction between self-images and the social meanings of the neighborhood communities in which people live. It is one of those many social phenomena "taken for granted" as part of everyday life and seldom analyzed, but nevertheless influential in the social construction of local community realities.
Although many social scientists have written about the relationship between the self and others, few have focused on the self-territorial community relation. George Herbert Mead had indirectly considered this relation of self and community in a discussion of William James and the question of consciousness. James had given an example of a person entering a house. The house has a history and the person who enters becomes part of its history. The house, simultaneously, becomes part of the person's history.1 What I have done in this work is to attempt to synthesize the many ideas of self and community from several disciplines and perspectives to form what I hope is a contribution to understanding this important dimension of human social life. "
Contents
Introduction. (J. Krase, R. Hutchison). Visualizing Ethnic Vernacular Landscapes. (J. Krase). Immigrant Global Neighborhoods in New York City. (T. Hum). The Muslim Chronopolis and Diasporic Temporality. (M.S. Laguerre). 'The game behind the game': Spatial Politics and Spike Lee's_He Got Game_. (J. Geiger). Being Racialized Ethnics: Second Generation West Indian Immigrants in NYC. (S-A. P. Butterfield). Titi Yeya's Memories: A Matriarch of the Puerto Rican Migration. (D.A. Badillo). The Decline of the Public Sphere: A Semiotic Analysis of the Rhetoric of Race in New York City. (T. Shortell). Emergent African Immigrant Philanthropy in New York City. (M.O. Okome). Relations Between the Jewish and Caribbean American Communities in New York City: Perceptions, Conflict and Cooperation. (H. Henke, J.A.G. Irish). The Caribbean Nation-State in Brooklyn Politics: An Examination of The Una Clarke Major Owens Congressional Race. (E. Brown). Little Italy: Resisting the Asian Invasion, 1965-1995. (P.F. Napoli). Changing Racial Conceptualizations: Greek Americans in NYC. (A. Karpathakis, V. Roudometof).
The papers presented here deal with the general topic of immigrant communities in metropolitan regions across the globe – but they do so from many different perspectives and by employing various methodologies. They include theoretical studies of immigration, globalization, and diaspora as well as case studies of immigration and ethnic communities within particular countries and individual cities. The methodologies employed include survey research, secondary analysis of survey data, participant observation, fieldwork and ethnography, and photo documentary. Once again the diversity of the field and subject matter – indeed the global reach of our subject and discipline – produces significant results in a volume that is expansive in method, theory, and example.
Full information about the book is available
online: http://books.emeraldinsight.com/display.asp?K=9780762313211
Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World is the Volume 8 in Elsevier’s Research and Urban Sociology Series. The series addresses the major subject areas of urban sociology, ethnic and minority groups within the city, social network of urban residents, location of retail and industrial activities within the metropolitan complex, decline of the central cities and emergence of suburban lifestyles, and the core question of community integration itself.
Contents
Ethnic Landscapes in a Global World
Introduction (R. Hutchison and J. Krase)
The Earth’s Inhabitants Scattered (S. Weil)
Diasporic Globalization (M. Laguerre)
Multicultural City (V. Marotta)
Migration and New Urban Ethnic Minorities (N. Magnani)
Immigrant Global Neighborhoods (J. Krase and T. Hum
Caribbean Immigrants in Toronto (J. Teelucksingh)
Segregation and Attachment to Place (G. Mesch)
Amayra Migrants (J. Crowder)
Koreans in Japan (D. Rands)
Expatriate Ethnoscapes (W. Leggett)
Social Inequality in Bulgaria (S. Histova)
Dr. Jerry Krase, a sociology professor, has been riding the Coney Island Avenue bus to work for more than 30 years, which helped him to arrive at an incredible theory about people's acceptance of other people. Dr. Krase claims his bus ride actually contains part of that formula. He explains, in own words.
Made possible in part by a grant from the National Park Foundation through the generous support of the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund and the Popplestone Foundation the project was an effort to reach out to the residents of Brooklyn and Queens. This was one of the tandem projects created to coincide with the airing of the Ken Burns documentary, America’s Best Idea about National Parks, in September.
We were very fortunate to have worked together with many dedicated and creative individuals: Professors Jerry Krase and Jennifer Adams of Brooklyn College, Steve Ogumah, filmmaker, Jahneille Edwards, Nyocia Edwards, Carlen Primus, Binish Qadeer, Zareen Tasneem, and Candice Wright– interns from Macaulay Honors Academy, Brooklyn College, and the Brooklyn College Academy HS, and our own Sheridan Roberts and Charles Markis National Park Rangers.
Professor Krase’s Visual Sociology Class provided the foundation for the students who became the interns for the project. These students received special training in researching community demographics and interviewing techniques. They learned about the National Park Service, its mission of stewardship and Gateway National Recreation Area’s rich and diverse resources, facilities and programs from the park’s knowledgeable and enthusiastic ranger staff. Through their interviews in Caribbean communities of Brooklyn and Queens, the students have created a bridge for Gateway to a population that has had limited exposure to the breadth of the park and have opened a dialog between the park and the community. This film represents more than the completion of a rewarding project – it is the beginning of new understanding and involvement.
Theoretical and methodological discussions will be illustrated and supported by comparable photographs taken in cities where "Chinatown" and/or "Little Italy" have touristic currency. Mention of "Chinatown" and/or "Little Italy" can be found in commercially produced tourist guides such as the Lonely Planet Guide, Fodor's, and/or Frommer's for these cities: London, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. For theoretical contrast, the emergent "Chinatown" in Rome Italy will also be visually and conceptually examined.
Our photo archive contains collections from urban neighborhoods in many global cities. Check out the albums for Little Italies, Chinatowns, and neighborhoods in global cities by following the links in the right margin. We are adding new photographs regularly. If you have a collection of photos from a city not in the gallery and would like to contribute, please contact us.
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We also maintain an archive of scholarly works on urban communities, urban semiotics, and visual sociology. In the right margin, you will also see links to some of our special exhibits.
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a timely and immensely valuable contribution to a rather limited
understanding of an extremely complex problem which is facing an
economically and politically ascending Poland. The "problem" referred to is the highest recorded movement of people in Europe for almost fifty years, that is, migrations even greater than the voluntary and involuntary population transfers that followed the end of World War II. The diverse collection of articles contained in the text demonstrates that a huge flow of humanity has been funneling into and through Poland.
the book to review because he was looking for a text for a special topics visual sociology course he was scheduled to teach in the fall of 2007. Unfortunately the course did not enrol, but the senior research seminar in sociology, offered by the second author, Timothy Shortell, did.
For Feliks Gross, Professor Emeritus of Brooklyn College of The City University of New York, the answer to the question of what makes it possible for people who are different from each other to live in peace has been a perennial quest. In this short volume, perhaps the capstone of his life’s work, he begins by reminding us that multiethnic states are not a new phenomena. For millennia diverse groups have been bound together by coercive means, but that to do so by consensus called for different techniques and principles.