GCI Working Paper Series - 2004
Playing
with Race in Transnational Space: Rethinking Mestizaje
Marcia Farr
Professor of English and Education
Ohio State Univerisity
Former Great Cities Institute Faculty Scholar
2001-2002
March 2004
GCP-04-01
This paper explores the racial hierarchies of Mexico and the United
States and then how one social network of Mexican transnational families
does not fit neatly into the categories of each set. the paper concludes
with an analysis of tape recorded discourse among women traveling in
a van from Chicago to Mexico in which they joke about the ambiguity
of their place, or lack of it, in these hierarchies.
From
Immigration Assimilation to Metropolitan Regeneration and Transformation:
Notes and Reflections on the Processes of Immigrant Settlement and Metropolitan
Change in Chicago Today
Anthony Orum
Professor, Department of Sociology
University Of Illinois at Chicago
March 2004
GCP-04-02
Over the course of the past three decades more than thirty million new
immigrants have entered the United States. Most have entered the larger
metropolitan areas -- New York City, Los Angeles and Houston. This paper
discusses several of the new immigrant groups, and communities, in the
Chicago metropolitan area. It shows how and where these communities
have taken root. Using maps of the Chicago metropolitan area it also
indicates both the breadth and the concentration of several groups --
Mexican, Puerto Rican and Polish. It also compares the large group of
metropolitan residents of Polish ancestry with the location of recent
Polish immigrants.
Before
all the Boys are Dead: Variation in Urban Violence
John Hagedorn
Professor of Criminal Justice
University of Illinois at Chicago
Great Cities Faculty Fellow
October 2004
GCP-04-03
Homicide in Chicago has not dropped drastically as it has in New York
City. To understand why it is necessary to look at the reasons for variations
in violence globally: social exclusion, societal disruption, repression
of ethno-religous groups, and the institutionalization of groups of
armed young men.
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