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Spring Semester 2011

Demography is Destiny

How Aging, Gender Relations, Racial and Ethnic Diversity,
and Immigration are Changing Everything

Wednesday Evenings, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
January 12 – April 13
West Village F, Room 20

Suggested Readings:

Kotkin, Joel. The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050.Penguin Press, 2010.
- Excerpt: Chapter One.
Howe, Neil and William Strauss. The Fourth Turning. Broadway Books, 1997.
Howe, Neil and William Strauss. Generations:The History of America’s Future 1584-2069. William Morrow and Company, 1991.
Howe, Neil and William Strauss. Millennials Rising. Vintage Books, 2000.
Hoover, Eric (2009-10-11) “The Millennial Muddle: How stereotyping students became a thriving industry and a bundle of contradictions”. The Chronicle of Higher Education (The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inc.) http://chronicle.com/article/The-Millennial-Muddle-How/48772/.
Texeira, Ruy (editor). Red, Blue, & Purple America: The Future of Election Demographics. Brookings Institution Press, 2008.

Date	Topic	Featured Lecturers
January
12	Demographic Change: From the Family to the World - Barry Bluestone powerpoint 1 - Barry Bluestone powerpoint 2 - Barry Bluestone powerpoint 3 - Barry Bluestone powerpoint 4 View the videos	Barry Bluestone
19	What’s Happening to the American Family? “The Changing Faces of America’s Children and Youth” by Kenneth Johnson and Daniel Lichter “Growing Diversity among America’s Children and Youth: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions” by Kenneth Johnson and Daniel Lichter as published in Population and Development Review “Marriage: America’s Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty” by Robert Rector (Heritage Foundation) - Kathryn Edin powerpoint View the videos	Kathryn Edin (Harvard) Kenneth Johnson (U. of New Hampshire)
26	Prismatic Communities/Diverse Neighborhoods “Creating a ‘Brain Gain’ for U.S. Employers: The Role of Immigration” by Darrell M. West (Brookings Institution) “Immigrants’ Children Find Better Lives, Study Shows,” New York Times review (May 18, 2008). Review of “Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age” by Mary Waters and others. “Over a million immigrants land U.S. jobs in 2008-10.” Ed Stoddard, Reuters (January 20, 2011). “The Impact of New Immigrants on Young Native-Born Workers, 2000-2005.” Andrew Sum, Paul Harrington, and Ishwar Khatiwada of Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies. Published by the Center for Immigration Studies (September 2006). Whole Foods Announces Plans to Move to Jamaica Plain — replacing Hi-Lo Foods.” The Boston Globe (January 19, 2011). “A Market Goes Upscale, as Jamaica Plain Does Itself – End of an Era for Latino Grocery.” The Boston Globe (January 20, 2011)	Richard Chacon (Mass Office of Refugees and Immigrants) Mary Waters (Harvard)
February
2	The Changing American Workplace: Part I Video shown at the beginning of class featuring the immigrant driving up to hire some white-collar workers Barry Bluestone powerpoint Robert Triest powerpoint View the videos	Barry Bluestone (Northeastern) Robert Triest (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
9	The Changing American Workplace: Part II Joseph Quinn presentation Phyllis Segal presentation Work and Retirement: How and When Older Americans Leave the Labor Force, Joseph Quinn (Boston College, 2010). After the Recover: Help Needed: The Coming Labor Shortage and How People in Encore Careers Can Help Solve It. Barry Bluestone et. al. (Civic Ventures, 2010) How Boomers Can Help Improve Healthcare, Sandy Atkins et al. (Civic Ventures, 2010). A New Equation: How Encore Careers in Math and Science Education Equal More Success for Students, Elizabeth Foster. (Civic Ventures, 2010). View the videos	Joseph Quinn (Boston College) Phyllis Segal (Civic Ventures) Joseph Quinn’s webpage Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Civic Ventures website Encore Careers website
16	Demographic Change and our Public Schools Census analysis: Nation’s diversity grows, but integration slows. Today at Brown (Brown University, 2010). Resegregation in American Public Schools? Not in the 1990s. John Logan (Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research, University at Albany, 2004). Segregation in Neighborhoods and Schools: Impacts on Minority Children in the Boston Region. John Logan, Deirdre Oakley and Jacob Stowell (Lewis Mumford Center for Comparaative Urban and Regional Research, University at Albany, 2003). School District Demographics System, a resource of the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, provides demographic data on all school districts throughout the U.S. View the videos	John Logan (Brown) US2010, a project analyzing the first decade of the 21st Century, directed by John Logan.
23	Visualizing the Evolving American City View the videos	Johanna Londono (Northeastern) Peter Vandewarker (architectural photographer)
March
2	Spring Break
9	Is there a Future for Older Industrial Cities? Assignment Detroit, Time magazine Detroit: rethinking the post-industrial city, World Architecture NewsRuins of Detroit, photographs by Marchand Meffre View the videos	Dan Okrent Teresa Lynch (Initiative for a Competitive Inner City)
16	Will Demographics Bankrupt Massachusetts? - Alicia Sasser Modestino powerpoint - Clayton Matthews powerpoint View the videos	Alan Clayton-Matthews (Northeastern) Alicia Sasser (Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
23	Demographic Change and National Politics - Ryan Enos powerpoint View the videos	Ryan Enos (Harvard)
30	Can America Afford an Aging Society: Who will work? Who will pay taxes? - Barry Bluestone powerpoint View the videos	Deborah Banda (AARP Massachsuetts) Barry Bluestone
April
6	Demographic Change and the Affluence of Nations Publications by Martin Whyte “On Multi-Culturalism, Japan Got There First,” by Stephen Harner on Forbes.com. - Martin Whyte presentation View the videos	Martin Whyte (Harvard)
13	Population Growth and National Stability The Future of the Global Muslim Population: Projections for 2010-2030. Few Forum on Religion and Public Life. January 27, 2011. View the videos	Larry Lowenthal Denis Sullivan (Northeastern)