AMST 1154 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lower East Side Tenement Museum, Henriette Davidis, Rye Bread
8 Feb 2017
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Role of technologies in people"s everyday lives. Customs and rituals of ethnic, regional enclaves. To understand a culture, past or present, we should endeavor to understand how a . Food becomes the means to bind together an immigrant culture. Even as food practices themselves adapt and transform through contact cultures. Food practices (letting go of enclave practices) become the means for assimilation. Ireland: catholic, rather than protestant, prompted antipathy and anti-irish sentiment. Small numbers of chinese men, to help build the railroads. New york tenement house act of 1867 definition of tenement: any house, building, or portion thereof, which is rented, leased, let, or hired out to be occupied or is occupied, as the. Upwardly mobile purchase of property as means for achieving american dream. Like other new york german immigrants, was from a city urbanite (not rural peasant) tailor. Neighborhood shifting from irish- dominated to german dominated. New village pattern: delicatessens & bakeries, grocers, beer, gardens, landsmanschaften (clubs)
