1)    Gated Communities/Insecure American Edited by Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman

The Insecure American How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich

Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this innovative volume, editors Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman gather essays from nineteen leading ethnographers to create a unique portrait of an anxious country and to furnish valuable insights into the nation's possible future. With an incisive foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich, the contributors draw on their deep knowledge of different facets of American life to map the impact of the new economy, the "war on terror," the "war on drugs," racial resentments, a fraying safety net, undocumented immigration, a health care system in crisis, and much more. In laying out a range of views on the forces that unsettle us, The Insecure American demonstrates the singular power of an anthropological perspective for grasping the impact of corporate profit on democratic life, charting the links between policy and vulnerability, and envisioning alternatives to life as an insecure American.

"The Insecure American turned out to be a revelation—by turns alarming, depressing and laugh-out-loud amusing."—Eugene Robinson, Washington Post

"During the last half century, America morphed almost seamlessly from 'the Age of Anxiety' into 'the Age of Insecurity'. The threat of nuclear annihilation hovered ominously as a Damoclean sword, and while there are residues—that anxiety has been substantially replaced by a gnawing sense of more local insecurity—from employment and healthcare uncertainty, to expanding gated communities and food-supply woes. This is as rich a collection as one can find that provides compelling accounts for how and why this has happened."—Troy Duster, Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at NYU "If ever the United States was a country of shared prosperity, it no longer answers to that description. The consequences for American families, particularly those at the bottom of the social structure, but increasingly in the middle class as well, have been devastating to their pocketbooks, their confidence, and the hope that their children will be able to make it in the world they are inheriting. This distinguished group of anthropologists trains an ethnographic lens on the impact of growing insecurity on the social fabric of the nation. Concerned citizens, fellow social scientists, students, and policy makers should pay attention to their message."—Katherine Newman, Princeton University, co-author of The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich Acknowledgments Introduction Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson

Part One Fortress America

1. A nation of Gated Communities Setha M. Low

2.Warmaking as the AmericanWay of life Catherine Lutz

3. Republic of fear: The rise of Punitive Governance in America Roger N. Lancaster

Part Two The New Economy

4. Neoliberalism, or The Bureaucratization of the World David Graeber

5.The Age of Wal-Mart Jane L. Collins

6. Deindustrializing Chicago: A Daughter's story Christine J.Walley

7. Racism, risk, and the new Color of Dirty Jobs Lee D. Baker

Part Three Insecurity as a Profit Center

8. Normal Insecurities, Healthy Insecurities Joseph Dumit

9. Cultivating Insecurity: How Marketers Are Commercializing Childhood Juliet B. Schor

Part Four The Most Vulnerable

10. Uneasy street  T.M. Luhrmann

11. Body and soul: Profits from Poverty BrettWilliams

12. Useless suffering: The War on Homeless Drug Addicts Philippe Bourgois

13.Walling out Immigrants Peter Kwong

Part Five Insecurity and Terror

14. Compounding Insecurity:What the neocon Core reveals about America today  Janine R.Wedel

15. Deploying law as aWeapon in America'sWar on terror  Susan F. Hirsch

Part Six Insecurities of Body and Spirit

16. Death and Dying in Anxious America  Nancy Scheper-Hughes

17. Get religion Susan Harding

 

2)    “ I am Blessed” and why Kathy Griffin was right when she told Jesus to Suck It.

3)    Patterns, relationships, connections, link back to what?, key concepts, key ideas

4)    The Market Day

a)    Review film

b)    Idea to do something with it

5)    Birth in four cultures

a)    Anything in 3-4 cultures

6)    Those Who Work And Those Who Don’t, review book

a)    Do you need to, is it an American Capitalist construct?

b)    What about the teen work ethic, how does it affect older working professional work ethic, has it changed, why has it changed, who changed it, has it changed for the better? what does the data say? This is a subject of my upcoming thesis for the UNT -- MA Distance Learning Program in Applied Business Anthropology. Here's what I would argue: I don't think this generation of kids is any threat to the older workers. There is a great disparity between the Gen X Gen Y work ethic and the Boomers.  One study from Northeastern University alone showed that since 1978 (coincidentally I worked @ McDonald’s during high school at this time) the nationwide percentage of 16-19 year olds with summer jobs hit the lowest mark in 2007 with a paltry 39.5%.

7)    Pink Ribbons Inc. A Corporate Dream Come True review the book

a)    Write a critical essay about it since PT&Co.

b)    How critical illness fuels the cause-related economy

8)    Trust: A Comparative Study and the gated community, self imposed gates/ghettos/lookout over Newark

9)    Fear and Insecurity in the Community: Who is the real boogeyman? Osama or your mama?

10) Bowling Alone/Better Together

a)    Interview 65+ and ask about neighborhood

b)    Interview 35+

c)    Interview 15+

11) Hygiene: A Comparative Study on how we are neurotic about hand washing, but then we are filthy about our homes Oprah show

12) Class size: A Comparative Study China/US/

13) Beauty around the World, fashion Encyclopedia, Oprah show

14) Socialized or Civilized – Oprah show

15) Are too many students going to college? Fordham University Press book

16) Dangerous Citizens The Greek Left and the Terror of the State Neni Panourgiá

17) The urge to “ prevent this from happening again”

18) “changed forever”

19) End of The Hamptons – review title

20) People at Work – review title

21) Beyond Camptown –review title

a)    East River shanty town - In New York City, there was an extensive Hooverville/shantytown on the west shore of Manhattan, along the NY Central RR tracks on the upper west side, where Riverside Park now stands. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_is_a_shanty_town

22) Growing Older In World Cities- review title

a)    Athens Kiosk “a form of retirement”

23) Madonna: Polish, Black, Pop, and Sardinian

24) Hard Living on Main Street

25) We Dance When We are Sad: How The Greek Kefi Experience Will Teach You How To Love Your Life and Why Our Culture Prevents It

26) Repatriation

a)    The consultation process and new collaborations

b)    Displacement/endangerment of people and artifacts through conflict

c)    Diaspora cultural communities

d)    Return of economic migrants

e)    Memory, identity and temporality

f)     Global discontinuities in repatriation policy

27) Degrees of Dispossession

28) Textures of Contras

29) Nadir Pulitzer Prize Literature Winner

30) Rachel Carson’s why and how she got to write, don’t write until you have something to say

31) Pre-School In 3 Cultures

32) Culture of Success – 3 Different Views – 3 cultures

33) Ethnicity Inc. review the book

a)    Stuff white people like – neighborhoods, oh how cool

34) FGM The Semantics of Female Genital Mutilation, Circumcision, Cutting

35) The Tourist’s Gaze, Cretan Glance

36) Person and Place: The Deployment and Neglect of America’s Anthropologists in WWII

a)    and how it’s not the same thing at all now:

b)    40% Less Death

c)    http://www.aaanet.org/cmtes/commissions/CEAUSSIC/index.cfm

d)    Why Hinton thinks it’s a good idea

e)    Why Setha won the Anticipatory also, so does she agree?

37) Where did Old 42^nd Street Go?

38) Where have all the theaters gone?

39) Ethnolanguage.com

40) The Lost Children Of The Sun

41) Wasting

a)    Food: thttp://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/27-1h

b)    Products 99cents Stores

42) Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture

43) Why Manners Matter

44) Unleash you Inner Anthropologist

45) Think like an Anthropologist

46) Spent – In all Senses

47) Born Round – Book Review

48) Empathy Gap

49) Waiters: A Cross Cultural Comparison

50) The After Dinner Walk: The Space Walk, But Do they?

a)    How Diaspora Communities Behave in their Foreign National City and why A Comparative Study in 3 Communities Little Lisboa, Little Bombay, and Montclair

51) Submit the 2 pieces to AN

52) Why Little Lisboa Works: The Organic vs. the Grafted

53) Duarte as an example of overdevelopment

54) Duarte, Bradbury, Lower Duarte, Below The Tracks

55) Observing The Observers

56) RHWO: NJ/AT/NY/CA

57) Portrait of an American Aristocrat: Ben Franklin’s Descendent, Those Cole Haan Portrait (K

58) Documenting Gated Communities:  Park, Erwin Park, Llewellyn Park

59) The origin of the Tuxedo

60) Concepts of Safety in Five Different Communities: England, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Montclair

61) Why Do They Smell The Same: How 3 Italian American Cafés Capture the Essence of Culture A World Away

62) An Irregular Migration Path: Why Some Italians migrated from West Paterson, NJ To Chicago, IL

63) Anticipatory Anthropology – Helicopter Offspring in the Workforce 20/20

64) Clash of Entitlement: Prince of The East – Prince of The West

65) MLM: How Culture Fosters Selling Up: Korean, Latin American, American, Japanese Cross Cultural Comparison

66) John Noble Wilford Writes about Anthropology NY Times

67) Anthropological Provenance

a)    Frazer

b)    Boaz

c)    Mead

d)    Geertz

e)    Hall

f)     Kluckholn

g)    Hoffstede

h)   That school guy

i)     The Belgian Guy

68) Title of Publication: PoptKultr: Taking Anthropology Down From the Trees And Connecting The Dots (or how to understand what’s in front of you and work your way backwards like a graduate student)

69) Der.org

70) Think and Grow Rich In American vs. Think and Grow  Deep: The Anti-Intellectual Movement in America. Be smart, but not too smart, like monks In The Name of The Rose) do we have to leave all the knowledge in the labyrinth? Gore, Obama, and Roosevelt and why Roosevelt fared better because he was like a father figure

71) Class size does not matter: A cross cultural comparison in China, India, Greece, America 4^th grades

72) 10 Questions for the MA Thesis in three companies from LinkedIn Survey

73) The GenX Work Ethic 20/20