Student Reading List
*The following are excellent reference books to have in the classroom or from which to pull short excerpts.
Cutler, I., Chicago: Metropolis of the Mid-Continent 4 th ed., Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 2006.
Grossman, James R. and Keating, Ann D. and Reiff, Janice L., editors. The Encyclopedia of Chicago, University of ChicagoPress, Chicago. 2004
Steinberg, P.E. and Shields, R., editors. What Is a City?: Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia, 2008.
Terkel, S., Division Street: America, Pantheon Books, New York, 1967
Terkel, S., The Great Divide, Pantheon Books, New York, 1988
Wacquant, L., Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2008
*The following website will be a useful model for students researching their neighborhood.
Gage Park Students, A Community Transformed: The Legacy of Dr. King and the Marches of 1966, 2010, Web. Accessed 30 June 2011.
*The following textbook or a similar text approved by the College Board should be integrated into the unit if done in conjunction with Advanced Placement Human Geography.
Rubenstein, J.M., The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography 10 th ed., Prentice Hall, Boston, 2011
These are excellent texts for examining ethnocentric perspectives on specific cultures.
Sosa, L., The Americano Dream, The Penguin Group, New York, 1999
Williams, J., Enough, Crown Publishers, New York, 2006
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