Immigration and Migration and the Making of a Modern American City

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 14.03.02

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Objectives
  4. Back of the Yards: A Neighborhood
  5. My Research Process: Applications Beyond Chicago
  6. Strategies
  7. Activities
  8. Notes
  9. Appendix
  10. Bibliography

Neighborhood as Palimpsest: An Examination of Chicago's Back of the Yards Neighborhood Through Urban Historical Geography

Molly A. Myers

Published September 2014

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Bibliography

Primary Sources

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Illinois. Cook County. 1900. U.S. Census, population schedule. Digital images. ancestry.com. July 10, 2014. http://ancestry.com

Illinois. Cook County. 1910. U.S. Census, population schedule. Digital images. ancestry.com. July 10, 2014. http://ancestry.com

Illinois. Cook County. 1920. U.S. Census, population schedule. Digital images. ancestry.com. July 10, 2014. http://ancestry.com

Breckinridge, Sophonisba P. and Edith Abbott. "Housing Conditions in Chicago, Ill: Back of the Yards." American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 16, No. 4 (Jan., 1911), pp. 433-468.

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McDowell, Mary. The University of Chicago settlement-Primary Source Edition. Public Domain. Reprinted by Nabu Press (Charleston, SC) in 2014.

Mary McDowell and Municipal Housekeeping. Public domain. Digitized by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved on July 11, 2014 from https://archive.org/details/marymcdowellmuni00hill

Swist, Jeannette. Images of America: Back of the Yards. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing, 2007.

Content Sources

Barrett, James. "Unity and Fragmentation: Class, Race, and Ethnicity on Chicago's South Side, 1900-1922. Journal of Social History, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Autumn, 1984), pp. 37-55.

Barrett, James. Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers 1894-1922. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Cresswell, Tim. Place: a short introduction. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.

Cronin, William. Nature's Metropolis

Duis, Perry. Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837-1920. pp. 204-205

Halpern, Rick. Down on the Killing Room Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-1954. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997.

Hayden, Dolores. Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.

Hirsch, Arnold R. "E. Pluribus Duo?: Thoughts on 'Whiteness' and Chicago's 'New' Immigration as a Transient Third Tier." Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 23, No 4, The Study of 'Whiteness' (Summer, 2004), pp. 7-44.

Holli, Melvin G. and Peter d'A. Jones, eds. Ethnic Chicago: A Multicultural Portrait.

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McBee, Randy. Dance Hall Days: Intimacy and Leisure Among Working-Class Immigrants in the United States. New York City: NYU Press, 2000.

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Pacyga, Dominic A. Polish Immigrants and Industrial Chicago: Workers on the South Side, 1880-1922.

Pacyga, Dominic. "To Live Amongst Others: Poles and their Neighbors in Industrial Chicago, 1865-1930." Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 16, No. 1, The Poles in America (Fall, 1996), pp. 55-73.

Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in the Turn-of-the-Century New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. Kindle Edition.

Wade, Louise Carroll. Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards, Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Washington, Sylvia Hood. Packing Them In: An Archeology of Environmental Racism in Chicago, 1865-1954. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005.

Sources on Teaching Strategies

Jacobs, Heidi Hayes. Active Literacy: Across the Curriculum. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education, 2006.

Ritchhart, Ron, Mark Church, and Karin Morrison. Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for all Learners. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2011, Kindle edition.

Zweirs, Jeff and Marie Crawford. Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understandings. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers, 2011, Kindle edition.

Comments:

Sydney Hunt Coffin

July 12, 2015 at 7:55 pm

brilliant

I adore how the author/Molly Myers has articulated the place with language as well as through concrete activities for her students. The introduction has been a fabulous read and a model for me to approach introducing my own ideas to my students and other teachers. While I am in Philadelphia, so Back of the Yards carries less relevance for me directly, the general concepts around understanding the genuine specificity of her area corresponds closely with my own school neighborhood in Hunting Park. How the layers do build up quickly! How are there other stories which can inform our present-day existence and knowledge of the place we call home? Molly finds answers by digging deep into the even deeper questions that drive us all.

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