and to spend some time in America’s largest city. OK, I know August in New York is not every-body’s idea of an ideal late summer get away. But any time ASA meets

in New York it always seems (at least to me) to turn into an “urban” meet-ing. The City puts so many social issues into sharp relief, and gives

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Wings” in Warsaw, and an older man sporting “Greenpoint, Brooklyn” in an airport in Corsica. When people ask me where I'm coming from I now say Brooklyn instead of New York, and if I'm among the right company I can even say Williams-burg. Brooklyn has al-ways been an internation-al city in terms of migra-tion flows, but now the idea of Brooklyn is cool enough to be silk screened onto clothing and used to market busi-nesses that are thou-sands of miles away. During the 1960s and ‘70s New York City—Brooklyn included—suffered from budget cuts, population changes, loss of blue-collar jobs, and general divestment and crime. In the ‘70s there were various at-

tempts at improving New York’s image made by real estate collectives and the Association for a Bet-ter New York (Greenberg 2008). By 1977 the mar-keting of New York was consolidated under the “I <3 NY” campaign by the New York State Depart-ment of Commerce; but

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P h i l i p K a s i n i t z , C i t y U n i v e r s i t y o f N e w Y o r k

Welcome to New York! By now I know most CUSSer’s have already made their ASA plans, but if you have not, let me urge you to come to the meetings,

Sara Martucci CUNY-Graduate Center If this is your first time in New York you'll want to see the sights—the Stat-ue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, and Cen-tral Park—but you might also venture over to the nearby land of Brooklyn, a city in its own right. Twenty years ago most tourists would not have visited Brooklyn unless they had family there or were feeling extremely adventurous; but today Brooklyn is big, and it's everywhere. In Europe this summer I saw refer-ences to “Brooklyn” in Barcelona, Brussels, and small towns in southern France. On the Berlin U-bahn there was a teenag-er in a “Williamsburg, Brooklyn,” t-shirt; the “Brooklyn Burgers and

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community and urban types so much to talk about. This year will be no exception. Our “section day” is Monday August 12 and our program is –if I do say so myself— pretty great. We are featuring sessions on culture and communities, ethnoracial diversity and the future of America’s neighbor-hoods, global cities and environmental justice as well as a session-- or per-haps a debate-- on the impacts of gentrification on the urban poor. This in addition to a huge variety of round tables. It is go-ing to be a busy day, but fortunately it concludes with our annual reception (which is to say: “DRINKS!), hosted this year by the CUNY Grad-uate Center Program in Sociology, at 365 5th Av-enue at 34th Street (for those of you whose New York memories go back a

build in a little time during ASA meetings to get out of the hotel and see a bit of the City we are in. To-wards that end, the local arrangements committee has also organized tours for those who can man-age to tear themselves away from non-stop ex-citement of an ASA meet-ing. These include visits to Central Park, Green-wich Village, the Lower East Side, ethnically di-verse Jackson Heights and Astoria, the High Line, the garment district and the New York City Subway system, all lead by sociologists who have worked in and studied these places. All in all, it should be intellectually stimulating and a lot of fun, and it will give all of those pompous, chauvinistic New Yorkers (like me!) a chance to show off our home town. Hope to see you all there.

bit, it is the old B. Alt-man’s building). In addition I should let you know a bit about some of the conference’s “Spotlight on New York” sessions that may be of particular interest to CUSS members. These include sessions on “broken windows” polic-ing, a session looking at the causes of New York’s precipitous crime decline, a session organized by Eric Klinenberg on New York’s environment in the wake of hurricane Sandy, one organized by Sharon Zukin about the City’s culture industries, as well as sessions on mega projects and de-velopment, immigration in New York, inequality and social movements post “occupy wall street” and a really cool session enti-tled “Gastropolis: Food in New York City. I don’t know about you, but I always try to

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awards committees. In this edition, be sure to check out the growing ASA URBAN group who will be sponsoring meet-ings to connect urbanists interested in community-based sociological re-search. This edition includes publishing opportunities in the Announcements section as well as infor-mation about CUSS

After being out in the Rockies last year, the ASA Meetings head east for the 2013 events. CUSS has organized an exciting set of sessions and roundtables. The 2013 CUSS award recipi-ents will be recognized at the Business Meeting on August 12 at 11:30am. Congratulations to all the recipients as well thanks to all who served on the

members’ achievements in the News & Notes section. Also, look at the New Books and Dissertations sections to see what re-cent publications CUSS members produced. As we move into the 2013-14 academic year, please contact me if you have any suggestions or ideas for future editions. The e-format permits many inter-esting options.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

•Call for Papers: Hous-ing the Homeless: Emerging Research on New Programs Guest Editors: Chris-tine George, PhD, Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola Univer-sity Chicago and Jennifer Chernega, PhD, Depart-ment of Sociology, Winona State University-invite papers from a varie-ty of relevant disciplines for a special issue of the

Journal of Poverty on emerging programs ad-dressing the problems of Submission deadline is November 1, 2013 For questions regard-ing this special issue please contact: Jennifer Chernega jchernega@winona.edu or Christine George cgeorg@luc.edu.. For submission questions please contact: Jessica Martone, Editorial Asso-

ciate, Loyola University

Chicago, School of Social Work, jmartone@luc.edu, or 312-915-7285. •Call for Papers: Sus-tainable Cities: Global Concerns, Urban Ef-forts. William Holt, editor, Emerald Press, Research in Urban Studies (RUS) series, Volume 15 is re-questing manuscripts for a new volume addressing

•Angie Chung, SUNY-Albany, has three arti-cles on ethnic enclave politics and Asian Ameri-can family roles online and in press this year:

-Angie Y. Chung, Irene Bloemraad, and Karen Tejada. “Reinventing an Authentic ‘Ethnic’ Politics: Ideology and Organiza-tional Change in Korea-town and Field’s Corner" in press with Ethnicities [OnlineFirst version: http://etn.sagepub.com/content/early/ 2013/02/03/1468796812471128.full.pdf+html]; -Angie Y. Chung. “From Caregivers to Caretakers: The Impact of Family Roles on Ethnicity Among Children of Korean and Chinese Immigrant Fami-lies” in press with Qualita-tive Sociology [OnlineFirst version: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11133-013-9252-x];

- Sookhee Oh and Angie Y. Chung. “A Study on the Sociospatial Context of Ethnic Politics and En-trepreneurial Growth in Koreatown and Monterey Park” in press with Geo-Journal [OnlineFirst ver-sion: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10708-013-9478-x].

•Harvey Molotch, New York University, has pub-lished a new book: Against Security: How We Go Wrong at Airports, Subways, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Dan-ger (Princeton University Press). It is based, in part, on ethnographic research Harvey conduct-ed with Noah McClain (now at IIT) on the NYC subway system and its various security programs like “If you See Some-thing…”). The “other sites” investigated include

public restrooms (based on work jointly conducted with NYU PhD candidate Laura Noren), the Katrina disaster in New Orleans (part of a research initia-tive with Lee Clarke of Rutgers) and reconstruc-tion at Ground Zero after 9-11. It was given the PROSE Award by the American Association of Publishers as the year’s best book in sociology or social work and was named among the top dozen non-fiction books of the year (“Public Picks”) by Public Culture Magazine. Anthony Gid-dens called it "A break-through… an original contribution to social the-ory and a dazzling cri-tique of how security is managed in everyday life and in situations of cri-sis."

•Mario Small, University of Chicago, announces a new issue of the Annals

of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences has a number of papers of in-terest to (and written by) members of CUSS. The issues is available at http://ann.sagepub.com/content/647/1.toc The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sci-ences has published a volume, co-edited with Scott Allard, dedicated to the role of systems, institutions, and organizations in the lives of low-income residents of urban areas. Includes papers by David Harding, Jeff Morenoff, Stefanie De Luca, Nicole Marwell, Joe Galaskiewicz, Min Zhou, Mike McQuarrie, Bruce Fuller, Celeste Watkins, and others. Please email for a copy of the Introduc-tion at msmall@ UChicago.edu

sustainability efforts in urban centers around the world. The focus is on growth, development, population and innova-tion, The submission deadline is October 1, 2013. One page abstracts with authors’ contact in-formation should be sent to wholt@bsc.edu. Chap-ter drafts will be expected by February 1, 2014.

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2013 ASA CUSS Pane ls & Roundtab les

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The 2013 ASA Annual Meetings will be in New York, New York from Au-gust 10-13. All CUSS events are scheduled for Monday, August 12 ex-cept for one section on the following day. The CUSS Section will spon-sor one invited session, three open sessions (one co-sponsored with the Environment, Technology and Society Section) as well as roundtables. The CUSS Business Meeting will be on Monday, Au-gust 12 from 11:30am to 12:10pm. The CUSS Re-ception will be that even-ing from 6-8pm at the CUNY Graduate Center located at 365 5th Ave-nue and 34th Street. SESSION ONE: Global Cities and Envi-ronmental Justice (co-sponsored with the Section on Environ-ment, Technology and Society) Monday, August 12, 8:30am-10:10am Session Organizer: William G. Holt (Birmingham-Southern College) Presider: William G. Holt (Birmingham-Southern College) •Environmental Justice and Civil Society: Case Studies from Southeast Asia

*Piya Pangsapa (University of West Indies-St. Augustine) •Barriers to Sustainability: Gendered Divisions of Labor in Cuban Urban Agriculture

Christina A. Ergas

(University of Oregon)

•Population Migration and Spatial Agglomeration in China: Generational Ethic of Major Function Orient-ed Zoning *Congring Yao

•Unequal Trajectories: Racial and Class Differ-ences in Residential Ex-posure to Industrial Haz-ard

*Jeremy Pais (University of Connecticut), Kyle Crowder (University of Washington), Liam Downey (University of Colorado-Boulder)

•Discussant: Sharon L. Harlan (Arizona State University)

SPECIAL SESSION Gentrification: Impacts on the Poor and Working Classes Monday, August 12, 2:30pm-4:10pm Session Organizer: •William Helmreich CUNY Graduate Center/CCNY *William B. Helmreich (City University of New York-Graduate Center) SESSION TWO: Cultural Communities, Culture and Community Monday, August 12, 4:30pm-6:10pm Session Organizer: Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College) Presider: Peggy Levitt (Wellesley College) •Arts Institutions as Fo-rums in New York’s Low-er East Side *Max Holleran (New York University)

•Constructing a Sense of Place: Global and Local

Sensibilities in Iconic Ar-chitecture

*Matt Patterson (University of Toronto) •From SoHo to SoWhat? Assessing the Spatial Complexity of Boston’s Art Worlds *Matthew E. Kaliner (Harvard University)

•Turning to Culture in Times of Crisis: Creating Value and Conflict in a Transnational Tourist Landcape

*Jacob H. Lederman (City University of New York-Graduate Center)

Discussant: Shamus Rahman Khan (Columbia University)

SESSION THREE: Ethnoracial Diversity and the Future of Amer-ica’s Neighborhoods and Communities Tuesday, August 13, 8:30-10:10am Session Organizers: •Barrett A. Lee Pennsylvania State University •Meredith J. Greif Georgia State University •Van Tran University of Pennsylvania Presider: Meredith Greif (Georgia State Universi-ty) •Immigrant Inclusion in an Affluent Neighborhood: The Makings of an Unex-pected Community *Elizabeth Miller (City University of New York-Graduate Center)

•Local culture and the transformation of new immigrant destinations

*Pepper Glass (Weber

State University) •Does Ethnic Diversity in U.S. Neighborhoods Drive Down Associational Life? Testing Constrict, Conflict and Contact The-ories

*Michael Savelkoul (Radboud University Nij-megen), Miles Hewstone (Oxford University), Peer Scheepers (Radboud University-Nijmegen), Dietlind Stolle (McGill University)

•Context is Everything: Segregation, Ethnic Di-versity and Social Cohe-sion: Importance of “Nestedness” in Contex-tual Analysis

*James Laurence (University of Manches-ter)

•The paradox of integra-tion and cohesion: a mi-cro-sociological explana-tion *Zachary Neal (Michigan State University), Jennifer Watling Neal (Michigan State University)

ROUNDTABLES Monday, August 12, 10:30-11:30am Organizers: •Jennifer A. Stoloff U.S. Department of Housing and Develop-ment •Jaimie Ann Carboy North Georgia College and State University •Matt Maronick University of Chicago •Albert S. Fu Kutztown University •Eric Tesdahl, Vanderbilt Unive TABLE 1: Urban Re-newal, History, and

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Segregation Table Presider: Jennifer A. Stoloff (U.S. Depart-ment of Housing and Ur-ban Development) •Foreclosures, Investors, and Uneven Develop-ment during the Great Recession in the Los An-geles Metropolitan Re-gion *Emily Tumpson Molina (City University of New York-Brooklyn College)

Historic Districts and Neighborhood Change: : Does Designation Lead to Gentrification?

*Aaron Passell (Furman University)

•Identifying Successful Urban Renewal Strate-gies: A Historical Com-parative Study of Three New England Mill Towns

*Rebecca S.K. Li (The College of New Jersey), *Grace Slobodzian (The College of New Jersey)

•New York City’s Stuyve-sant Town and the Ne-oliberal Attack on Middle-Class Housing *Rachael A. Woldoff (West Virginia Universi-ty), Lisa Morrison Puckett (United Nations), Mi-chael Glass (University of Pittsburgh)

TABLE 2: Context and Satisfaction Table Presider: Matthew Luther Lindholm (Concordia College) •A Statistical Test of Cul-tural Heterogeneity

*Autumn Deer McClellan (University of North Caro-lina-Chapel Hill)

•Individual and Contextu-al Socioeconomic Status and Community Satisfac-tion

*Lauren Hughes (Pennsylvania State Uni-versity)

•Neighborhood Context and Youth Physical Activ-ity: Differential Associa-

tions by Community Type

*Lori Kowaleski-Jones (University of Utah), Ming Wen (University of Utah), Jessie Fan (University of Utah)

TABLE 3: Diversity, Gentrification and Con-sensus from the Com-munity Prospective Table Presider: Jaimie Carboy (University of North Georgia) •Building Consensus, Consenting to Build: Community participation in urban planning for the

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2013 CUSS Awards

Congratulations to the 2013 CUSS awards recipients. They will be recog-nized at the CUSS Business meeting on Monday, August 12 from 11:30am to 12:10pm. • Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award The Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes dis-tinguished career achievement in community and urban sociology. Recipient: William Julius Wilson Harvard University Award Committee •Derek Hyra, Chair Virginia Tech •Jeffrey M. Timberlake University of Cincinnati •The Park Award The Park Award (formerly the Park Book Award) goes to the author(s) of the best book published in the past two years (2011 and 2012).

Recipient Robert Sampson Harvard University Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. 2012: Chicago: University of Chicago Press Award Committee: •Bruce D. Haynes, Chair University of California, Davis •Xuefei Ren Michigan State University •Andrew Beveridge CUNY-Queens College •The Jane Addams Award The Jane Addams Award (formerly the Park Article Award) goes to au-thors of the best scholarly article in community and urban sociology pub-lished in the past two years (2011 or 2012). Recipient Matthew Desmond Harvard University "Eviction and the Reproduction of Ur-ban Poverty" 2012. American Journal of Sociology.

Award Committee: •Andrew Deener, Chair University of Connecticut •Van Tran University of Pennsylvania •Lisa Weinstein Northeastern University •CUSS Student Paper Award The CUSS Student Paper Award goes to the student author of the pa-per the award committee regards as the best graduate student paper in community and urban sociology. Recipient Stacy Torres New York University “Where Everybody May Not Know Your Name: The Importance of Elas-tic Ties. " 2013 Award Committee: •Karyn Lacy, Chair University of Michigan •Chris Bonastia CUNY-Lehman College •Elena Vesselinov CUNY-Queens College •Judith Friedman Rutgers University

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future of Asheville

*Mary Larue Scherer (University of Massachu-setts-Amherst) •Gentrification’s Uneven Temporal Distribution of Costs and Benefits

*Kevin R. Beck (University of California-San Diego)

•Longing for the Bomb: The Future of Atomic Nostalgia *Lindsey A. Freeman (New School for Social Research)

•Super-gentrification: the loose-mix of transition zones. Moving architec-tural concepts into ethno-graphic practice in Brook-lyn’s Park Slope. *Lidia K.C. Manzo (University of Trento)

•Social Production of an Institutional-Ghetto:Urban Entrepreneurialism and the Transformation of Nashville’s Geography of Homelessness *Damian T. Williams (Concordia University Chicago) TABLE 4: International Cities, Segregation and Neoliberalism Table Presider: Victoria Reyes (Princeton Univer-sity) •Melting Houses into Lau-rel Wreaths - The Right to the City of Exception *Barbara BRAVO (Graduate Institute of In-ternational and Develop-ment Studies - Geneva)

•The Casino Gamble: Neoliberalism, The State in Crisis, and The Pro-duction of Casino Space

*John Edward Balzarini (Temple University)

•The Rise and Fall of an

Ultra-Orthodox Town in Israel *Yona Ginsberg (Bar-Ilan University), Avi Shoshana (Hebrew University)

•Turf Wars: Racial Segre-

gation and Territoriality in Community-Based Or-ganizations *Joseph R. Gibbons (State University of New York-Albany)

•What is Unique about Fraccionamientos? Study of a settlement type in Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, Mexico

*Yu Chen (University of Texas-Austin)

TABLE 5: Place and History Table Presider: Krista E. Paulsen (University of North Florida) •Media Discourse and Collective Memory: The Contemporary Framing of Boston’s School Deseg-regation Crisis

*Meghan V. Doran (Northeastern University) •The Significance of Place: The Impact of Ur-ban and Regional Resi-dence on Gender-Role

*J. Scott Carter (University of Central Florida), *Shannon K. Carter (University of Cen-tral Florida), *Mamadi Corra (East Carolina Uni-versity), *Jerrold Kauf-man (University of Chica-go) •The Stigmatized City: Addressing the Legacy of the 1967 Riots/Rebellion in Newark and Detroit *Max Arthur Herman (New Jersey City Univer-sity)

•Neighborhood Access to Public Transportation

along Multiple Dimen-sions of Segregation in Portland, OR

*Brian Scott Mckenzie (U.S. Census Bureau)

TABLE 6; Problems of Neighborhood and Housing Table Presider: Catherine Gillis (Loyola University-Chicago) •The Concentration of Intimate Partner Violence in Chicago Neighbor-hoods

*Sara Bastomski (Yale University)

•The Negative Evolution of Corner Stores and their Contribution to Neighborhood ‘Food Desert’ Status

*Melinda Laroco Boehm (Case Western Reserve University)

•Urban Amenity Prefer-ences Among Creative Immigrant Workers: The Case of Bengali-Indian Professionals in Kansas City

*Anirban Mukherjee (Kansas State University)

•The Sociology of Hous-ing Tenure: Examining Ideas around Renting and Owning in Twentieth First Century America *Anne B. Shlay (Temple University)

TABLE 7: Racial & Eth-nic Segregation in Ur-ban Settings Table Presider: Allison Padilla-Goodman (City University of New York-Graduate Center) •A Theoretical and Empir-ical Foundation for the Study of Non-Urban Eth-nic Economies in the United States

*Mahesh Somashekhar (Princeton University)

•Racial Residential Seg-regation in New Haven, CT *Elizabeth Roberto (Yale University)

•The Chess Game: Black Survival in San Francisco

*Christina R. Jackson (University of California-Santa Barbara)

•Socio-Economic Segre-gation in Large Cities in France and the United States *Lincoln G. Quillian (Northwestern Universi-ty), *Hugues Lagrange (Sciences Po) TABLE 8: Negotiating Neighborhood and Identity Table Presider: Leonard Nevarez (Vassar College) •Crowning King Anchovy: Camp and Gay Commu-nity in San Antonio’s Ur-ban Festival, 1951-1964 *Amy L. Stone (Trinity University)

•High Tension Zones: Boundaries, Negotiated Order, and Urban Territo-riality *Ulluminair M. Salim (University of California-San Francisco)

•Urban Ethnic Mobiliza-tion and the Symbolic Dimension of Neighbor-hood *Anup Arvind Sheth (University of California-Los Angeles) TABLE 9: Urban Rede-velopment, Space & Built Environment Table Presider: Albert S. Fu (Kutztown University)

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URBAN: Communi ty -Based Research at ASA 2013

The ASA (sociology) node of the Urban Re-search Based Action Net-work (URBAN) has planned a series of activi-ties to advance collabora-tive, community-based research at the upcoming ASA meeting in August. Please join us for an or-ganizational meeting on Saturday, August 10th 6:30-7:30pm Conference Room D Sheraton Hotel & Towers. Colleagues will discuss how to promote and support community-based research among sociologists. This will be a chance to meet and connect with like-minded colleagues and plan con-crete activities that the ASA URBAN node can do in the coming year. •Section on Political Sociology Session: In-teractive Workshop on Media and Politics in the School Reform Movement Monday August 12th 2:30pm-4:10pm (please check online system for room location) Across the U.S., parents, community leaders, stu-

dents, and teachers are strategizing how to en-sure high quality public education in the face of corporate-driven school reform campaigns. This session will engage soci-ologists with invited par-ents, students and com-munity leaders; it will practice an alliance-building method from the Grassroots Roots Policy. More information from gamson@bc.edu or char-lotte_ryan@uml.edu. Pre-session reading packet will be posted on the Movement and Media Research Action Project website after July 1st. www.mrap.info. •Section on Sociologi-cal Practice and Public Sociology Roundtables Tuesday August 13th 2:30-3:30pm (please check online system for room location) Please attend one of five roundtables we have or-ganized with the section to bring sociologists to-gether around issue are-as for facilitated conver-sation about ongoing and potential collaborative

research: -Educational Leadership, Research, Policy and Change. Chair: John Diamond -Community Based Re-search as a Teaching Tool. Chair; Susan Ambler -Cities and the Environ-ment. Chair: Daina Cheyenne Harvey -Immigration Policy, Un-documented Immigrants, and Local/National Ac-tion: Documenting the Undocumented. Chair: Tom Pineros Shields Note: these are NOT pa-per presentation roundtables. They are spaces to discuss ongo-ing research and possibil-ities for supporting collab-orative research going forward. ASA URBAN planning team: Mark R. Warren, University of Mass. Bos-ton & Jose Calderon, Pitzer College, Co-chairs. URBAN is an emerging multidisciplinary network of scholars and communi-

ty activists created to fos-ter collaborative, commu-nity-based research that is relevant to pressing issues facing communi-ties and that can support action initiatives. URBAN seeks to support and ad-vance this type of en-gaged scholarship within academia. It has local nodes in Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Northern California. It has national, disciplinary nodes in sociology, among education re-searchers and an emerg-ing node among commu-nity psychologists. More information on URBAN at: http://web.mit.edu/colab/work-project-urban.html . To sign up for the ASA URBAN email list: please email: urbanASA@lists. brandeis.edu

•Infrastructures of Segre-gation: Discourse and the Built Environment in a Chicago subdivision, 1880-1920. *Robin Bartram (Northwestern University)

•Moving Beyond NIMBY: Spatial Exclusion, Legis-lated Inclusion and Public

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*Jennifer Girouard (Brandeis University)

•Parks for Profit: The Ur-ban Growth Machine and the Case of the High Line

*Kevin P. Loughran (Northwestern University)

•Bringing Back the Spirit of Broadway: Latino/a Busi-

nesses Caught in the Crosshairs of Nostalgic Redevelopment *Monica Lomeli (University of California-Santa Barbara)

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CUSS will sponsor three open

sessions, one invited session, and roundtables at the 2013 ASA Meetings

NEW BOOKS

•Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith

Haitian Religion in Mi-ami. New York: NYU Press, August 2013. -Terry Ray Temple University -Alex Stepick Portland State University Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s, significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Mi-ami. Overcoming some of the most foreboding ob-stacles ever to face immi-grants in America, they, their children, and now their grandchildren, as well as more recently ar-riving immigrants from Haiti, have diversified socioeconomically. To-gether, they have made South Florida home to the largest population of native-born Haitians and diasporic Haitians outside of the Caribbean and one of the most significant Caribbean immigrant communities in the world. Religion has played a central role in making all of this happen.

Crossing the Water and Keeping the Faith is a historical and ethno-graphic study of Haitian religion in immigrant com-munities, based on field-work in both Miami and Haiti, as well as extensive archival research. Where many studies of Haitian religion limit themselves to one faith, Rey and Ste-pick explore Catholicism, Protestantism, and Vodou in conversation with one another, sug-gesting that despite the differences between these practices, the three faiths ultimately create a sense of unity, fulfillment, and self-worth in Haitian communities. This metic-ulously researched and vibrantly written book contributes to the growing body of literature on reli-gion among new immi-grants, as well as provid-ing a rich exploration of Haitian faith communities. •HOME: International Perspectives on Cul-ture, Identity, and Be-longing. 2013 (Forthcoming). Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang Publishers. Editors Margarethe Kusenbach University of South Florida Krista E. Paulsen University of North Florida , HOME: International Perspectives on Culture, Identity, and Belonging presents fourteen original contributions by authors examining the importance

of dwellings and local communities in people’s everyday lives. Through qualitative research con-ducted in North America and Europe, the volume explores the ways in which “home” is created both ideally and practical-ly, at levels ranging from individual housing units to neighborhoods and public spaces. Even when the circumstances of making one’s home deviate from cultural ideals—for in-stance, in crowded, insti-tutional, or stigmatized housing contexts; in dis-advantaged or transient neighborhoods; or when one has no permanent dwelling at all—the au-thors make clear that ex-periences and practices of home are central to what it means to be hu-man. This volume will be of interest to scholars examining housing, com-munities, cities, residen-tial design, consumption, culture, and social policy issues. It is appropriate for courses and students in sociology, urban stud-ies, anthropology, and architecture.

•Urban China. 2013. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Xuefei Ren Michigan State University. Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented ur-ban growth in China pre-sents a crucial develop-ment for studies on glob-alization and urban trans-formation. This concise and engaging book ex-amines the past trajecto-ries, present conditions, and future prospects of Chinese urbanization, by investigating five key themes - governance, migration, landscape, inequality, and cultural economy. Based on a compre-hensive evaluation of the literature and original re-search materials, Ren offers a critical account of the Chinese urban condi-tion after the first decade of the twenty-first century. She argues that the ur-ban-rural dichotomy that was artificially construct-ed under socialism is no longer a meaningful lens for analyses and that Chi-nese cities have become strategic sites for reas-sembling citizenship rights for both urban resi-dents and rural migrants. The book is essential reading for students and scholars of urban and development studies with a focus on China, and all interested in understand-ing the relationship be-tween state, capitalism, and urbanization in the global context.

•The Urban Ethnogra-phy Reader. 2013 (September). New York: Oxford University Press. Editors -Mitchell Duneier New York University -Philip Kasinitz CUNY -Alexandra K Murphy University of Michigan Urban ethnography is one of the oldest tradi-tions of American social science and has helped define how we think about cities and city dwellers since its incep-tion in the early twentieth century. Renewed inter-est in urban poverty, the immigrant experience, and gentrification among the public and scholars alike has focused atten-tion on qualitative meth-ods in the social scienc-es, and the field of urban ethnography in particular receives more attention now than at any point since its inception. The Urban Ethnography Reader assembles the very best of American ethnographic writing, from classic works to

contemporary research, and aims to present eth-nography as social sci-ence, social history, and literature alongside its traditional place as meth-odology. In addition to an original introduction that highlights the importance and development of the field, Kasinitz, Duneier, and Murphy also provide introductions to each sec-tion of the book. The sec-tion introductions will cov-er the period's historical events and how they in-fluenced the study of the city, the major themes and preoccupations of ethnography, what was happening in the social sciences as a whole, and how the excerpts chosen fit into the larger work in which they were originally published. A valuable companion to a wide range of courses on cities across the social scienc-es, The Urban Ethnogra-phy Reader captures the diversity, the historical development, and the continuing importance of the ethnographic ap-proach to understanding American communities.

•Urban Megaprojects. A Worldwide View. 2013.

Bingley, UK: Emerald. Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría, ed. Cooper Union The aim of this book is to understand the causes and consequences of new scales and forms of territorial restructuring in a steadily globalizing world by focusing on ur-ban megaproject devel-opment. Contributions focus on the principal actors, institutions, and innovations that drive capitalist globalization, socio-economic and terri-torial restructuring, and global city formation by exploring the architectural design, planning, man-agement, financing and impacts of urban mega-projects as well as their various socio-economic, political and cultural con-texts. This is the first work on urban megapro-jects to be global in scope, with chapters about Korea, Bilbao, Kua-la Lumpur, Budapest, Milan, Abu Dhabi, New York, Paris, Sao Paulo, Beijing, Shanghai, Ham-burg, Vienna, Detroit, Philadelphia, Stuttgart, Afghanistan and Mexico City. It is also the first work on the subject to include contributions from sociologists, planners, geographers and archi-tects from top universities around the world, thus making it a truly multidis-ciplinary project.

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by New York, they meant Manhattan. Most parts of Brooklyn remained un-loved by city government throughout the 1980s and ‘90s. Services were cut in the outer boroughs and the associated funds di-verted in attempts to revi-talize areas of Manhat-tan. The branding of New York “conceal(ed) a high-ly unequal socio-economic reality,” as pov-erty and crime character-ized many New York neighborhoods outside of tourist attractions (Greenberg 2008). Despite the city’s neg-ligence, various Brooklyn neighborhoods did gentri-fy along different trajecto-ries. Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights began to gentrify piecemeal in the 1970s as individuals and families purchased Brownstones (Lees 2003). During the 1980s and ‘90s DUMBO and Williamsburg attracted artists to their vacant fac-tory spaces. In the past few years more peripher-al neighborhoods like Bed-Stuy and Buschwick have been flooded with middle and upper class students and young pro-fessionals. More recently, Downtown Brooklyn has been the site of large-scale commercial and housing development, with the sports and event complex Barclay’s Center as the keystone. Gentrified or not, Brooklyn has been the setting for novels, films and hip-hop music. In the past it was known for im-migration, vibrant ethnic

communities, crime, pov-erty, and great pizza. To-day the borough’s hip reputation revolves around its art and culi-nary offerings, as evi-denced by VisitBrook-lyn.org, which is now par-tially funded by the I <3 NY campaign. The website features 103 attractions in Brook-lyn, 57 of those are art attractions including gal-leries, film festivals, mu-sic spaces, and artist col-lectives. The site also profiles 227 restaurants. Of the 23 Brooklyn neigh-borhoods listed on Visit-Brooklyn.org, Williams-burg has the most attrac-tions. Williamsburg also had more hits in the New York Times Food and Dining section, with 165 articles referencing the neighborhood in 2012, and other popular Brook-lyn locales receiving 40 or less. Williamsburg is one of the prime centers of cool Brooklyn, and has undergone one of the most drastic shifts in im-age since the 1970s. A Case Study of Williamsburg In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Wil-liamsburg was a center for production and export. Thousands of factory jobs attracted immigrants from Europe and later Puerto Rico, while Hasidic Jews settled on the far South Side. In the 1960s some companies began moving their production to rural areas with less labor reg-ulations. The combination of a decline in factory

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single set enjoy a “lawn” during a street festival.

work, suburbanization, municipal divestment and planned shrinkage creat-ed a climate of poverty, crime and drug trafficking in Williamsburg. All of these factors led to inex-pensive rent in the neigh-borhood, and the huge loft spaces left from abandoned factories be-gan attracting artists in the late 1970s. Proximity to Manhattan via the Wil-liamsburg Bridge and the L train increased Wil-liamsburg’s popularity, as soaring Manhattan rents displaced more artists and students. With the help of city government, a 2005 rezoning literally paved the way for high-rise luxury developments throughout the neighbor-hood. Today Williams-burg is best known for its bars, restaurants, and artisanal fairs. The transi-tion from immigrant work-ing class community to cultural hub necessitated a re-imaging—up-scaling and promotion—of the Williamsburg aesthetic to attract a new type of resi-dent. Williamsburg used to be similar to the rest of the borough in terms of many demographics, in-cluding the average age of residents and house-hold composition. Alt-hough over the past twenty years Williams-burg has begun to stand out for many reasons, including the overwhelm-ing presence of young, unmarried individuals. According to the 2010 U.S. census, 39.5% of people living in Williams-

burg were between 20 and 34 years-old com-pared with just 24.8% for Brooklyn.

1 From 2000 to

2010, the subset of 25-29 year olds living in the neighborhood shot up by 61.4%. At the same time, the number of people living in non-family households is 36.7% in Williamsburg compared with 17.9% in Brooklyn. From 2000 to 2010, the percentage of His-panics in Williamsburg decreased by nearly 25%. Still, Hispanics ac-count for about 38% of Williamsburg’s popula-tion, much higher than the borough’s 19.8%. And between 2005 and 2012 the percentage of people receiving some form of government in-come support in the larg-er Williamsburg/ Green-point district only de-creased from 47% to 42.8%; and those receiv-ing Medicaid increased during that time.

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7% of the population is 65 or older, and on the North and South Sides it is still common to over-hear conversations in Polish, Ukrainian and Spanish. Williamsburg is pack-aged and sold as a cen-ter for high-end consump-tion and recreation de-spite the continued pres-ence of minorities, older adults, and low-income families. Individuals who do not have (a lot of) ex-tra cash find increasingly fewer options for enter-tainment, food and espe-cially housing in Williams-burg. In order to shift the

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continued presence of minorities, older

adults, and low-income families.“

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neighborhood’s image from gritty and working class to sophisticated and upper class, the neigh-borhood has undergone a re-branding through the efforts of local business owners, developers, mer-chants associations, and city planning agencies. The branding is focused on consumption (whether cultural or material) and it necessitates a transfor-mation in the goods, ser-vices, and aesthetics of the physical spaces. City government has helped to alter Williams-burg’s image by zoning the land for high-rise de-velopment (despite pro-tests, including a letter from Jane Jacobs) and partially sponsoring the creation of new public parks.

3 However, these

spaces are often semi-privatized or securitized. These steps are an indi-cation that the city is ready to invest in Wil-liamsburg only now that wealthy New Yorkers are choosing to live there. Since 2007 two public parks have opened in the neighborhood, although one now hosts a for-profit “culinary carnival” on weekends from 11am to 6pm, bringing 100 food vendors and thousands of customers into a seven-acre park.

4 In 2010, a

semi-public waterfront park and pier opened in front of the Edge condos, but the grass is closely guarded by the Edge’s private security guards. Last summer a public

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pool re-opened for the first time since 1984, when it was closed be-cause of its popularity among drug dealers. By now Williamsburg has attracted a base of wealthy residents who can afford the expensive condos, while developers have built less than 2% of the affordable housing they agreed to provide in exchange for tax breaks. The increased amount of public space makes Wil-liamsburg more attractive as a “green” neighbor-hood for potential resi-dents and tourists, but the sheen left by one of the largest recorded oil spills in United States history is only now in the early stages of being cleaned up due to atten-tion by the federal gov-ernment.

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Still, high-rise condos and clean parks are not the main attractions in Williamsburg. People visit the neighborhood be-cause it is known for res-taurants, bars, and bou-tique shopping. Dozens of new bars and restau-rants open in the area each year: so many that a few years ago the Com-munity Board considered placing a ban on new liquor licenses, at least temporarily. Some of the neighborhood’s older es-tablishments were opened by entrepreneurs who lived in the neighbor-hood in the late ‘90s and noticed a lack of some amenity they craved: cof-fee shops, a video store, etc…. But perhaps most interesting are owners

that have withstood the changing neighborhood by modifying their busi-nesses. Even long-term busi-ness owners have taken note of the changes in Williamsburg’s de-mographics, and there-fore the tastes and spending capacity of their customers. The result is an adaptation of aesthet-ics, products, and prices; a process that reinforces the neighborhood’s new image and can discour-age participation by less wealthy residents. The Polish bakery now carries baguettes and Ciabatta bread, expanding their selection from the dark, Eastern European loaves. Tops was the North Side’s only grocery store for years, and they sold basic fare plus Euro-pean and Hispanic ne-cessities. Today the store also sells fresh made ri-cotta cheese and a range of gluten-free and organic products. A chalkboard outside the store boasts deals for the week, mim-icking the “restaurant specials” boards that line Bedford Avenue. A Polish restaurant now empha-sizes its “European” cui-sine, and has added brunch to their weekend menu. Most of the bode-gas have been renovat-ed, many of them now selling coconut water and arugula. Red Pearl, a clothing shop, shifted their market entirely. They used to sell clothes for “middle aged women,” but now they specialize in novelty gifts and baby

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Figure One: 25-34 year olds in Williamsburg, high-er concentrations than most other Brooklyn neigh-borhoods. (Map made with Social Explorer)

Figure Two: In 2010 Williamsburg still had one of the highest concentrations of Hispanics in Brook-lyn; Map made with Social Explorer)

memorabilia. And the old Vittoria bakery has been reincarnated into a café by the same name, the owner trying to capture the “cappuccino crowd.” In 2003, one block contained two Polish butchers, a Salvation Ar-my, and a Laundromat. By 2008 all but the Salva-tion Army had closed, and by 2009 all of those storefronts contained res-taurants. The Salvation Army finally closed for renovations in 2012, it will re-open eventually but with more of a “department store” at-mosphere. Small busi-nesses flourish in Wil-liamsburg, but without any kind of regulation. There is a pronounced shift from establishments catering to necessity, to those focused on luxury consumption, which has isolated residents who are not wealthy.

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Increased and im-proved public spaces and a diversity of small busi-nesses are wonderful assets for a neighbor-hood, but residents shouldn’t have to wait until they’re facing dis-placement to enjoy them. The branding of Williams-burg as hip, green and a destination for consump-tion conceals inequality and the displacement of residents when rents sky-rocket. Long-term home-owners and renters who do manage to stay in Wil-liamsburg benefit from increased services and safer streets, but there is a price to pay for this re-birth. Just as Brooklyn

was forgotten during the I <3 NY campaign, the poor are being forgotten in Brooklyn today. The borough is becoming known for entertainment, luxury housing, and arti-sanal food production, but the focus is on growth without much considera-tion of Brooklynites them-selves. Footnotes 1. The following statistics come from http://maps.nyc.gov/census/ unless otherwise speci-fied: 2. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/neigh_info/bk01_info.shtml 3. http:// www.brooklyn railorg/2005/05/local/letter-to-mayor- Bloomberg 4. http:// nonabrook-lyn.com/smorgasburg-dispatch-brooklyns-new-culinary-incubatorface-stuffing-frenzy-debuts/#.Ud2geLY4SNM 5.http://www.nytimes. com/2010/09/28/science/earth/28newtown.html? r=0 6.http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130204/williamsburg/future-bedford-avenue-salvation –army-not-your-mothers-thrift=store Sara Martucci is a gradu-ate student at CUNY.

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•And They All Came From New Orleans’: Louisiana Migrants in Los Angeles—Interpretations of Race, Place, and Identity. Faustina M. DuCros University of California- Los Angeles This dissertation ana-lyzes the construction of racial, ethnic, and place identities among first- and second-generation Loui-siana migrants who came to Los Angeles during the 1940s to the 1970s. Us-ing data from in-depth life history interviews, it ar-gues that racial and eth-nic identity in this case is

a product of the interplay between local and nation-al racial structures and meanings, collective memory and nostalgia, and place-based interac-tion. The study finds that migrants established an enclave that supported collective memory and collective nostalgia for Louisiana through Louisi-ana-centered interaction. This contributed to place attachments and identifi-cations associated with Louisiana that were used to modify racial and eth-nic identities of migrants in Los Angeles. Most of the migrants in this study constructed Black identi-ties modified with Creole

and Louisiana-based identities. A smaller pro-portion of migrants had Creole-only, or Black-only identities, but Louisiana-based identities were im-portant for these migrants as well. In addition to the factors associated with place and racialization, identities were construct-ed using a combination of ancestry, visible ethnic and racial markers (such as surnames, phenotype, and culture), and narra-tives of racial and cultural mixture. The study makes several contributions to the literatures on race, ethnicity, place, Black identities, the Great Mi-gration, and Louisiana

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