Spring 2002
TTH 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
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OVERVIEW
This is the introductory course for the Kenneth Cole Fellowship in Community Building and Social Change. It will provide fellows with an analytic framework for examining issues of community building and social change, designed to prepare them for their field experiences with Atlanta-based organizations during the summer. The course emphasizes the interconnections among demography, culture, economy, and polity, and the global, national, state, regional, and neighborhood forces affecting communities. The course also addresses a number of major social issues, how those issues affect communities, and the processes through which change occurs.
In addition, this course features a lab component for fellows to gain experience with the tools needed for effective community building - field research techniques, familiarity with a variety of data sources, basic computing tools, and communication skills. The course also will introduce fellows to a variety of resource persons drawn from across the Emory campus and practitioners within the greater Atlanta area. Finally, the course will introduce fellows to metropolitan Atlanta by integrating course readings with field trips to selected locations for on-site briefings and conversations.
Each class session will permit and encourage discussion and interpretation of the readings among the fellows. Fellows should examine carefully each reading for its themes, introductions of concepts and definitions, and conclusions. They should also attempt to identify tensions and contradictions within and among the readings. The quality of class discussion will ultimately depend on the willingness of all fellows to read closely and think critically about assigned readings before each class session. Additionally, fellows should begin to read daily the metro section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, either the print edition or online edition (htp://www.ajc.com). This will allow you to identify the current issues, problems, policies, and institutions associated with the city/region you will study in the latter part of this course and in your summer field placements.
Active participation is expected of all fellows. It involves asking pertinent questions, answering questions voluntarily, sharing relevant insights, taking notes, and contributing to the general learning of peers. If fellows want a class with interesting and provocative student discussion, then they will have to accept the responsibility to come to class prepared to engage and participate. A consistently low level of participation will reflect poorly on a fellow and result in a low course grade. Furthermore, because each session is devoted to a topic or issue that will prove important during the summer session, attendance at each session is a mandatory part of the fellowship.
In the end, this course will offer the fellows a basic understanding of the dynamics of communities, an appreciation for the complexity of fostering social change, and a set of research skills. Together, these elements should ensure that the summer field experiences of each fellow are useful and rewarding to the fellow and their host organization.
SKILLS LABORATORY
The skills laboratory consists of monthly 1-1.5 hours skills sessions. Attendance at the each session is a mandatory part of the fellowship. A primary purpose of the skills laboratory is to give each fellow the tools they will need to complete course assignments during the spring semester. Another important objective of the sessions is to provide each fellow with a set of skills that they will use during their summer placements with Atlanta institutions and organizations. These sessions will also form the foundation for fellows to acquire additional skills during the summer and fall periods of the fellowship. The session topics during the spring semester will include: (1) conducting field research (i.e., taking notes and conducting interviews); (2) using libraries, archives, and the Internet to identify and compile data (i.e., bibliographic, public documents, historical, and policy-related research); (3) strategic planning; (4) communication (e.g., proposals, policy memos, technical reports, and op-ed pieces); and (5) using computers and technology (e.g., Microsoft Word and Excel) for community-based research. The dates, times, and locations of the skills laboratory will be announced as soon as possible.
COURSE GRADING
There will be a single cumulative final examination, along with a combination of individual and group activities. These activities include participation in a lab component, four field research exercises, and the production of a team "civic vision" for Atlanta.
The final exam will consist of multiple essay questions. In advance of the exams, students will receive a set of questions to review and consider. The exams will be administered during class at the assigned final exam session, tentatively scheduled for May 7th at 12:30pm. The exam will count for 30% of the course grade.
The field research exercises will be of two types - observations and interviews. For the observations, each fellow will attend two "public" meetings during the semester. The first meeting will be of a government or quasi-governmental agency. The second will be of a civic organization. The assignment is for each fellow to observe the proceedings, take notes, and report what happened at the meetings. For the interviews, each fellow will conduct 2-3 interviews with people involved in the "public" meetings they attend. The assignment is for each fellow to acquire first-hand information from a key informant about a small set of topics and issues related to their organization, its activities, and assessment of the "public" meetings. The field research exercises will count for 35% of the course.
The team project will require fellows, as teams, to develop and write a "civic vision" for the City of Atlanta. The assignment, which is expected to make the readings and discussions come alive, will allow fellows to try their hands at strategic planning. The assignment will test the ability of the fellows to identify the deficits and assets of a community, think comprehensively and strategically on behalf of it, and then design a plan that will guide the future of the community. It also will test their ability to act as team and assume leadership for designing, writing, and presenting a project. The team project will count for 35% of the course grade.
More information on each component of the course will come later in the semester.
MATERIALS
The materials for this course are available from the instructor. They consist of a set of reading packets. Supplemental readings will be announced and distributed in class or made available online at the Woodruff Library later in the semester. However, there is one book fellows are required to purchase for the course. It is Darlene Roth and Andy Ambrose, Metropolitan Frontiers: A Short History of Atlanta (Longstreet Press, 1996). It will be available later in the semester from the Emory Bookstore or the Office of University-Community Partnerships.
TOPICS AND READINGS
1/17 Introduction: Kenneth Cole Fellowship in Community Building and Social Change
Module I. Change and Continuity: The Dynamics of Community Building in the United States
1/22 Urban Crisis--Community Decline
John Kasarda, "Cities as Places Where People Live and Work: Urban Change and Neighborhood Distress," in Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation, edited by Henry Cisneros (WW Norton, 1993)
Doug Muzzio, "Decent People Shouldn't Live Here: The American City in Cinema," Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 2 (1996): 189-215.
Thomas Sugrue, The Origins of the Urban Crisis, "Introduction" and "Conclusion--Crisis: Detroit and the Fate of PostIndustrial America (Princeton, 1996).
Ray Suarez, The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, 1966-1999, Ch. 1 "What We Lost" (Free Press, 1990)
1/24 Urban Hope--Community Renewal
Paul Grogan and Tony Proscio, Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival, Ch.1 "The South Bronx: From the Bottom Up" and Ch. 3 "A Surprising Convergence of Positives" (Westview Press, 2000)
Carmen Sirianni and Lewis Friedland, Civic Innovation in America: Community Empowerment, Public Policy, and the Movement for Civic Renewal, Ch. 1 "Civic Innovation and American Politics" and Ch. 6 "The Civic Renewal Movement" (University of California Press, 2001)
1/29 Defining, Constructing, and Valuing Community
Albert Hunter, Symbolic Communities: The Persistence and Change of Chicago's Local Communities, Ch. 2 "Symbolic Communities and the Burgess Natural Areas: A Historical Comparison" (University of Chicago Press, 1974)
Robert Sampson, "What 'Community' Supplies," in Urban Problems and Community Development, edited by Ronald Ferguson and William Dickens (Brookings Institution, 1999)
Robert Chaskin, "Neighborhood as a Unit of Planning and Action: A Heuristic Approach," Journal of Planning 13(August 1998): 11-30.
Anthony Downs, Neighborhoods and Urban Development, Ch. 2 What is a Neighborhood?" (Brookings, 1981).
John Logan and Harvey Molotch, Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place, Ch. 4 "Homes: Exchange and Sentiment in the Neighborhood" (University of California, 1987)
1/31 Community Dynamics and Neighborhood Change
Guest Discussion Leader: Professor Michael Rich, Political Science, Emory University
Anthony Downs, Neighborhoods and Urban Development, Ch. 5 "Stages of Neighborhood Change" (Brookings Institution, 1981).
Rolph Goetze, Understanding Neighborhood Change, Ch. 2 "Changing Neighborhoods: Different Perceptions and Shifting Trends" (Ballinger, 1979)
John T. Metzger, "Planned Abandonment: The Neighborhood Life-Cycle Theory and National Urban Policy," Housing Policy Debate Vol. 11, No. 1 (2000): 7-40.
Module II. Identifying and Assessing Community Contexts
2/5 Sharing Community: Parallel Lives
Joseph Howell, Hard Living on Clay Street: Portraits of Blue Collar Families, Introduction, Ch. 11 "Peter Dale: Rejecting Hard Living", and Ch. 12 "The Ingredients of Hard Living" (Waveland Press, 1990)
Robert Reich, "The Secession of the Successful," New York Times Magazine (20 January 1991): 16-17, 42-45
Sandra Newman, No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City, Ch. 4 "No Shame in (This) Game" (Vintage Books, 2000)
Philippe Bourgois, In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, Ch. 6 "School Days: Learning to be a Better Criminal" (Cambridge, 1996)
Peter Medoff and Holly Sklar, Streets of Hope: The Fall and Rise of an Urban Neighborhood, Ch. 8 "The Power of Youth" (South End Press, 1994)
Sanyika Shakur (aka Monster Kody Scott), Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member, Ch. 8 "Tamu" (Penguin Books, 1993)
2/7 Problems and Conflicts of Community: Class
Guest Discussion Leader: Leslie Martin, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, Emory University
Ida Susser, Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood, Ch. 7 "Cooperation and Conflict in a Block Association" (Oxford University Press, 1982)
Randy Stoecker, Defending Community: The Struggle for Alternative Redevelopment in Cedar-Riverside, Ch. 7 " The Struggle Within" (Temple University Press, 1994)
Neil Smith, "Class Struggle on Avenue B: The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West," in The City Cultures Reader, edited by Malcom Miles, Tim Hall, and Iain Borden (Routledge, 2000)
2/12 Problems and Conflicts of Community: Race and Ethnicity
Guest Discussion Leader: Professor Karyn Lacy, Department of Sociology, Emory University
Ronald Bayor, Race and the Shaping of 20th Century Atlanta, "Introduction" and Ch. 8 "On Race and Cities" (University of North Carolina, 1996)
Scott Cummings, Left Behind in Rosedale: Race Relations and the Collapse of Community Institutions, Ch. 5 " The Adolescent Menace: Beyond Racial Stereotypes"(Westview Press, 1998)
Anthony Downs, Neighborhoods and Urban Development, Ch. 7 "Neighborhood Racial Change" (Brookings Institution, 1981).
2/14 Community Problem-Solving and Conflict Resolution: Role of Institutions
Robert Wuthnow, "The Voluntary Sector: Legacy of the Past, Hope for the Future," in Between States and Markets: The Voluntary Sector in Comparative Perspective, ed. Robert Wuthnow (Princeton University, 1991)
Richard Hula and Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore, Nonprofits in Urban America, "Introduction: An Overview of Emerging Roles of Nonprofits in Urban America," Ch. 1 Nonprofit Organizations in Urban Politics and Policy," (Quorum Books, 2000)
Barbara Ferman and Patrick Kaylor, "The Role of Institutions in Community Building: The Case of West Mt. Airy, Philadelphia," in Nonprofits in Urban America, ed. Richard Hula and Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore (Quorum Books, 2000
Gerald Gamm, Urban Exodus: Why the Jews Left Boston and the Catholics Stayed, and Ch. 1 "Introduction" and Ch. 3 "Institutions and Neighborhood Change" (Harvard, 2001)
2/19 Federalism, Intergovernmental Relations, and Institutions
Guest Discussion Leader: Professor Michael Rich, Department of Political Science, Emory University
Douglas Yates, "Urban Government as a Policy-Making System," in Louis H. Masotti and Robert L. Lineberry, eds., The New Urban Politics (Ballinger Publishing, 1976).
Jeffrey Pressman, Federal Programs and City Politics (University of California Press, 1975), Chap. 3 "Federal Political Impact: The Creation of a New Arena" and Chap. 4 "Images: Federal and Local Officials View Each Other"
2/21 Kenneth Cole Fellowship Leadership Forum:
The Impact of Terrorism on Community Building and Social Change
2/26 Connecting Citizens to Institutions: Community Participation
R. Gregory Bourne, "Community Problem Solving and the Challenge of American Democracy," National Civic Review, vol. 87, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 211-215.
Case Study - "Civic Vision: Participatory City Planning in Cleveland in the 1980s"
2/28 Social Capital
William R. Potapchuck and Jarle P. Crocke, Jr., " Exploring the Elements of Civic Capital," National Civic Review, vol. 87, no. 3 (Fall 1999): 175-201.
Xavier de Souza Briggs, "Brown Kids in White Suburbs: Housing Mobility and the Many Faces of Social Capital," Housing Policy Debate, 9(1)(1998):
Mark Chupp, "Investing in People Through Place: The Role of Social Capital in Transforming Neighborhoods--A Literature Review" (Cleveland State University, 1999).
Scott Idleman, "Terrorism, Liberty and Community: Why We Need a Stronger Focus on the Common Good," FindLaw's Writ (September 18, 2001).
3/5 Building Consensus for Change: Coalitions and Collaborative Problem-Solving
Christopher T. Gates, "Making A Case for Collaborative Problem Solving," National Civic Review, Spring 1991: 113-119.
Terry Mizrahi and Beth Rosenthal, "Complexities of Coalition Building: Leaders' Successes, Strategies, Struggles, and Solutions," Social Work, Vol. 46, No. 1 (2001): 63-79.
Beth Rosenthal & Terry Mizrahi, "Advantages of Building Coalitions," in Controversial Issues In Communities and Organizations, edited by Austin and Lowe (Allyn & Bacon, 1993)
Clarence Stone, "Urban Regimes and the Capacity to Govern: A Political Economy Approach," Journal of Urban Affairs 15, no. 1 (1993): 1-28.
Module III. Dynamics of Public Policymaking
3/7 Defining "Public" Problems: Tracing the Origins of Issues
David Rochefort and Roger Cobb, "Problem Definition: An Emerging Perspective," in The Politics of Problem Definition: Shaping the Policy Agenda, edited by David Rochefort and Roger Cobb (University Press of Kansas, 1994)
Frank Baumgartner and Bryan Jones, Agendas and Instability in American Politics, Ch. 1 "Punctuated Equilibria in Politics"
Giandemenico Majone, Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion in the Policy Process, Ch. 1. "Policy Analysis and Public Deliberation" and Ch. 2 "Analysis as Argument" (Yale 1989)
Deborah Stone, "Causal Stories and the Formation of Policy Agendas," Political Science Quarterly, 104: 281-300.
H. V. Savitch and Grigoriy Ardashev, "Does Terror Have an UrbanFuture?" Urban Studies, Vol. 38, No. 13 (2001): 2515-2533
David Haldane, "Charity Donations Down, Demands Up," Los Angeles Times (December 17, 2001).
John O'Neil, "Tough Times, Tough Choices: Charities Get a Big Helping of Uncertainty," New York Times (November 12, 2001)
319 Capturing the Attention of Decisionmakers: Agenda Setting
Guest Discussion Leader: Professor Michael Rich, Political Science, Emory University
John Portz, "Plant Closings, Community Definitions, and the Local Response," in The Politics of Problem Definition: Shaping the Policy Agenda, David edited by Rochefort and Roger Cobb (University Press of Kansas, 1994)
Joseph Coughlin, " The Tragedy of the Concrete Commons: Defining Traffic Congestion as a Public Problem," in The Politics of Problem Definition: Shaping the Policy Agenda, David edited by Rochefort and Roger Cobb (University Press of Kansas, 1994)
David Rochefort and Roger Cobb, "Framing and Claiming the Homelessness Problem," New England Journal of Public Policy, 8(1): 49-66.
David Rochefort and Roger Cobb, "Instrumental versus Expressive Definitions of AIDS Policymaking," in The Politics of Problem Definition: Shaping the Policy Agenda, David edited by Rochefort and Roger Cobb (University Press of Kansas, 1994)
Karen W. Arenson, "At Differing Speeds, Foundations Adjust to a World Transformed," New York Times (November 12, 2001)
3/21 Fostering a Consensus to Act: Governance and Public-Private Partnerships
Guest Discussion Leader: Professor Michael Rich, Political Science, Emory University
Jon Pierre, "Public-Private Partnerships and Urban Governance: Introduction," in Partnerships in Urban Governance, edited by Jon Pierre (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998), pp. 1-10;
Linder, Stephen H. 2000. "Coming to Terms with the Public-Private Partnership: A Grammar of Multiple Meanings," in Public-Policy Partnerships, ed. Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Robert Chaskin and Sunil Garg," The Issue of Governance in Neighborhood-Based Initiatives," Urban Affairs Review, 32(5)(1997): 631-61.
Susan Clarke, "Governance Tasks and Nonprofit Organizations," in Nonprofits in Urban America, ed. Richard Hula and Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore (Quorum Books, 2000).
3/26 Designs and Instruments of Public Action
Anne Schneider and Helen Ingram, Policy Design for Democracy, Ch 1. "Policy Design and Democracy," Ch. 4 "Foundations, Elements, and Consequences of Design," and Ch. 5 "Social Construction of Target Populations: Degenerative Policy Designs."
Richard F. Elmore, "Instruments and Strategy in Public Policy," Policy Studies Review, 7 (1) (1987): 174-186.
3/29 Implementing Public Policy
Jeffrey Pressman and Aaron Wildavsky, Implementation, "Preface to the First Edition" and Ch. 5 "The Complexity of Joint Action" (University of California, 1984)
Charles Orlebeke, New Life at Ground Zero: New York, Home Ownership, and the Future of American Cities, Ch. 6 "In Search of a Blueprint," Ch. 9 "Getting to Production: Ceremonies and Realities," and Appendices A, B, and C (Rockefeller Institute Press, 1997)
Module IV. The Context for Contemporary Community Building & Social Change in Atlanta
4/2 History of a City and Region
Guest Discussion Leader: Professor Dana White, Institute for Liberal Arts, Emory University
Note: Class may meet at the Atlanta History Center in Buckhead
Darlene Roth and Andy Ambrose, Metropolitan Frontiers: A Short History of Atlanta (Longstreet Press, 1996)
Ronald Bayor, "Atlanta: The Historical Paradox," in The Atlanta Paradox, ed. David Sjoquist (Russell Sage, 2000)
4/4 A City of Divisions and Communities
Obie Clayton et al., "Racial Attitudes and Perceptions in Atlanta," in The Atlanta Paradox, ed. David Sjoquist (Russell Sage, 2000).
Mark Thompson, "Black-White Residential Segregation in Atlanta," in The Atlanta Paradox, ed. David Sjoquist (Russell Sage, 2000)
Charles Jaret, Elizabeth Ruddiman, and Kurt Phillips, "The Legacy of Residential Segregation," in Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta, edited by Robert Bullard, Glen Johnson, and Angel Torres (Island Press, 2000)
Tom Wolfe, A Man in Full, Ch. 8 "The Lay of the Land" (Bantam Books, 1999)
4/9 Politics and Power
Larry Keating, Atlanta: Race, Class, and Urban Expansion, Ch. 4 "Atlanta Politics and the Governing Elite" and Conclusion (Temple University Pres, 2001)
Clarence Stone, "Urban Regimes: A Research Perspective," in The Politics of Urban America: A Reader, 3rd Ed., edited by Dennis Judd and Paul Kantor (Longman, 2002)
4/14 Structures of Governance in an Economically Diverse Region
Guest Discussion Leader: Professor Michael Rich, Department of Political Science, Emory University
Research Atlanta, Options for Regional Decision Making in Metro Atlanta (Research Atlanta, June 1999)
4/16 Spatial Mismatches and Social Problems
Keith Ihlanfeldt and David Sjoquist, "The Geographic Mismatch Between Jobs and Housing," in The Atlanta Paradox, ed. David Sjoquist (Russell Sage, 2000)
Robert Bullard, Glen Johnson, and Angel Torres, "Dismantling Transportation Apartheid: The Quest for Equity," in Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta, edited by Robert Bullard, Glen Johnson, and Angel Torres (Island Press, 2000)
4/18 Community Health
Guest Discussion Leader: Kathleen Miner, Rollins School of Public Health
Sidney D. Watson, "Health Care in the Inner City: Asking the Right Question," pp. 435-462 in John Charles Boger and Judith Welch Wegner, Race, Poverty, and American Cities (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996)
Stergios Tsai Roussos and Stephen B. Fawcett, "A Review of Collaborative Partnerships as a Strategy for Improving Community Health," Annual Review Public Health (2000): 369-402
4/23 The Prospects and Problems of Redevelopment
Guest Discussion Leader: Larry Keating, Professor of Planning, Georgia Tech or Leon Eplan, Former Planning Commissioner, City of Atlanta
Note: Class may meet of campus (TBA)
Anthony Downs, Neighborhoods and Urban Development, Ch. 6 "Neighborhood Revitalization" (Brookings Institution, 1981).
Larry Keating, Atlanta: Race, Class, and Urban Expansion, Ch. 8 "Downtown Redevelopment During the Olympics Era" (Temple University Pres, 2001)
Michael Chernoff, "Social Displacement in a Renovating Neighborhood's Commercial District: Atlanta (Little Five Points)," in Back to the City: Issues in Neighborhood Renovation, edited by Shirley Bradway Laska and Daphne Spain (Pergamon Press, 1980)
4/25 Sprawl and Growth Management
Guest Discussion Leader: Professor Howard Frumkin, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
Robert Bullard, Glen Johnson, and Angel Torres, "Environmental Costs and Consequences of Sprawl," in Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta, edited by Robert Bullard, Glen Johnson, and Angel Torres (Island Press, 2000)
James Chapman, "Impact of Building Roads to Everywhere," in Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta, edited by Robert Bullard, Glen Johnson, and Angel Torres (Island Press, 2000)
Howard Frumkin, "Urban Sprawl and Public Health," Public Health Reports, forthcoming