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*GHETTO: JEWS, AFRICAN-AMERICANS, AND THE URBAN IMAGINARY* A Dialogue With: Nathaniel Deutsch, UC Santa Cruz Mitchell Duneier, Princeton University Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia University Moderated by Eric Porter, UC Santa Cruz *Where:* Humanities 1 room 210 *When:* Tuesday, May 19, at 4:00pm Since its inception in sixteenth century Venice, the term "ghetto" has been applied to Jewish urban spaces in Europe and the United States. Over the last half century, it has also become associated with African American inner city neighborhoods. Highly regulated and surveilled by the state, Jewish and African American ghettos have also been marked by a high degree of social autonomy. Ghettos have functioned as sites of extraordinary cultural and religious creativityand extreme violence and repression. Alternately mythologized and pathologized, the ghetto also exists as an imaginary space that has defined and distorted the historical representation(s) of Jews and African Americans, respectively. Over time, ghetto has come to signify a place, a way of being in the world, and a state of mind. In this interdisciplinary dialogue, the first of a series that will bring together scholars of Jewish Studies with scholars from other fields, Professor Nathaniel Deutsch, Co-Director of the Center of Jewish Studies at UCSC, Professor Mitchell Duneier of Princeton University, and Professor Sudhir Venkatesh of Columbia University will discuss these and other aspects of the ghetto. Professor Eric Porter, Chair of the Department of American Studies at UCSC and author of the award winning book "What Is This Thing Called Jazz? African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists," will introduce and moderate the dialogue. The event is made possible by a grant from the David B. Gold Foundation and is co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Department of American Studies, and the Urban Studies Working Group. Sudhir Venkatesh is William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. He is an award-winning author, most recently of the New York Times bestseller "Gang Leader for a Day" (Penguin), a film maker, and radio producer, whose work has appeared in "The New York Times," "This American Life," and other venues. Venkatesh's research on Chicago street gangs served as the basis for a chapter in "Freakonomics." Mitchell Duneier is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and regular Visiting Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the City University of New York, Graduate Center. His first book, "Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity" won the 1994 American Sociological Association's award for Distinguished Scholarly Publication. His second book "Sidewalk" (1999), won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the C. Wright Mills Award. The event is made possible by a grant from the David B. Gold Foundation and is co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Department of American Studies, and the Urban Studies Working Group. Supported by the Institute for Humanities Research, UCSC. -- Lee Jaffe Assessment & Planning Librarian 3366 McHenry Library University of California 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, California 95064 831.459.3297 [email protected] http://library.ucsc.edu/ --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
