Making a New Society

Making a New Society

Week of January 22

Monday: The Peopling of Urban America
Wednesday: Urbanization: The Challenge of the New City
Friday: Economic Expansion and the Rise of the Corporation

DISCUSSION SECTIONS: Immigrant America?

READINGS:

1.Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
2.From the Pluralism and Unity Project, "The Ideal of Pluralism" and "Race and Pluralism"
http://www.expo98.msu.edu
3.Document: Chinese Exclusion Act, 1890

ADDITIONAL INTERNET RESOURCES:

1.Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives: http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html

WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT:

For your written assignment, assume that you are assigned to lead your
discussion section this week. After reading Upton Sinclair's The Jungle,
write three discussion questions about the book and the issues that it
raises and indicate in a sentence or two how you would approach
answering each of them. Your assignment should be typed and is due at
the beginning of your section.

***MIDTERM EXAMINATION***

***First Mid-term Due Monday, February 5 at 10:20 in Lecture***

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