ELI Supported Courses for Fall 2003

African American History: From Emancipation to the Present. Jonathan Holloway.
An examination of the African American experience since 1861. Emphasis on African Americans in the Civil War and Reconstruction; the thought and leadership of Booker T. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Du Bois, Garvey, King, and Malcolm X; the urban experience of African Americans; the civil rights movement and its aftermath.

ELI Support Team:
George Ouellette, Convener
African American Studies Digital Collection

New Haven and the Problem of Change in the American City. Douglas Rae, Cynthia Farrar, Stephen Lassonde, Alan Plattus
Examination of the rapid transformation of New Haven and other American cities over the past century as a case study of urban change and urban policy. One New Haven neighborhood's history and prospects considered in detail through studies of amelioration, gateways, gentrification, and common gain. Themes include the planning and policy implications of the flow of higher-income populations away from the inner city. Discussion of the creation of communities of common gain in depopulated urban cores.

ELI Support Team:
Karen Reardon, Convener
Diane Kaplan
Nancy Godleski
Abe Parrish
Fred Musto
Pedro Soto
Jennifer Weintraub
Historical New Haven Digital Collection

The Formation of Modern American Culture 1750 - 1876. Kariann Yokota
An introduction to the cultural, social, and political history of the United States from the era of the revolution through the Civil War and Reconstruction, with special attention to the emergence of a national culture and its relationship to the subcultures of different regions, races, genders, and classes.

ELI Support Team:
George Ouellette, Convener
Susan Brady
Fred Musto
Suzanne Eggleston-Lovejoy
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Cities, Suburbs and the Culture of Sprawl. Dolores Hayden
In 2000, more Americans lived in suburbs than rural areas and central cities combined. The seminar explores the changing meanings of 'city' and 'suburb' in the American metropolitan landscape and considers definitions of 'sprawl.' The process of building and marketing suburbia has been influenced by political coalitions promoting urban growth and by federal subsidies for real estate development. Examining architecture and land use, we survey seven suburban configurations: the 'borderlands' of the 1820s, the picturesque enclaves of the 1840s, the dense streetcar suburbs of the late nineteenth century, the mail-order house boom of the 1920s, the mass-produced bedroom communities of the 1950s, the mall-centered 'edge cities' along highways of the 1970s, and the rural fringes of the 1980s. A research paper of approximately twenty pages is required. Enrollment is limited to twelve.

ELI Support Team:
Ernie Marinko, Convener
Sarah Coe
Gloria Hardman
Cities, Suburbs and the Culture of Sprawl Digital Collection

Women: Race, Gender and Sexuality. Hazel Carby
Examination of how some black women have responded to the racialization of societies and to the culture and politics of gendering and sexuality in the twentieth century in Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas. Forms and media include fiction, poetry, autobiography, paintings, sculpture, performance art and film, and music.

ELI Support Team:
Brian Kupiec, Convener
Suzanne Eggleston-Lovejoy
Pat Willis
Mary Litch
Assets available in Insight and on the backup site.