CUNY Academic Commons

For the reading assigned this week it was split between the 4 people who were presenting, and so for this week the reading that I chose was Frederick K. Ursula’s piece entitled <i>Revolution is the New Black:Graffiti/Artand Mark-making Practices</i>, which talks about graffiti in Australia.

The first part of the article talks about how…[Read more]

The three articles that were for this week all focused around disaster with 2 of the 3 focusing on Hurricane Katrina and the devastating effects it had on Louisiana.

The first article that I read was entitled After the Storm, Destruction and Reconstruction: The Potential for an Archaeology of Hurricane Katrina written by Margaret Bagwell. This…[Read more]

Going to the Stonewall Inn was quite a trip for me as it’s a little over an hour away from my house back in Long Island. Despite that, I had a really nice time. I got to see a piece of history as well as have a good time meeting new people and just soaking up the history in general. The Stonewall Inn is a really important part of LGBTQ history. In…[Read more]

This weeks readings were a bit difficult for me to follow as I feel it was written for scholars and not the everyday public.

The first reading that I did was Barbara L Voss’ The Scale of the Intimate which was about the multiples scales of intimacy and sexual politics by discussing the Spanish “discovery” and later the settlement of Chinese…[Read more]

How to Study Public Life written by Gehl and Svarre, and Robert Weiss’ piece entitled Interviewing “In learning strangers” are two pieces with a central theme between them, that being how to study the enviroment around you. Starting with Weiss’ piece, he gives a few examples of the people that he has interviewed; a man with HIV, and a divorced dad…[Read more]

The first reading entitled Bending The Future talks about what historic preservation can learn from Ferguson. The central idea of this piece talks about what can be considered a historical site and how in the case of Ferguson that could be troublesome. In 2014, Michael Brown was shot outside of a convenience store which would spark a riot. The…[Read more]

I must admit that this week’s reading went over my head, as I had a difficult time understanding both of the readings but nevertheless I will try and do my best. The first reading, written by Michael Foucault starts off by talking about the plague. Foucault goes into depth about how a city would police themselves during an outbreak of the plague;…[Read more]

In Pearson and Mullins article  entitled “Domestic Barbie” they go into the history on the now omnipresent doll, more specifically the roller coaster of subservience and independence. Barbie at her creation was a doll that some parents complained as being to “pin up like” for their children as her figure did not shy away from her breasts. Over…[Read more]