LEADER 04347nam 2200589 450 001 9910815009603321 005 20230126215053.0 024 7 $a10.7312/tonn18148 035 $a(CKB)3710000001100979 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5276006 035 $a(DE-B1597)480307 035 $a(OCoLC)1004866756 035 $a(OCoLC)1011438275 035 $a(OCoLC)964066043 035 $a(OCoLC)984543832 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231543613 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5276006 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11529498 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001100979 100 $a20180404h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aInternational express $eNew Yorkers on the 7 train /$fStephane Tonnelat and William Kornblum 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2017. 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (312 pages) $cillustrations, maps 311 $a0-231-18148-5 311 $a0-231-54361-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Becoming New Yorkers on the 7 Train --$t2. Coping with Diversity Aboard the "International Express" --$t3. Walking to the Stations, Code Switching, and the I-We-You Shift --$t4. The 74th Street/Roosevelt Avenue Station --$t5. Trust in the Subway: Exploring the Situational Community in Transit --$t6. Gender Relations on the Subway --$t7. Teenagers on the 7 Train --$t8. Subway City: The 7 Train as an Engine of Urbanism --$t9. A World of Subway Citizens --$tAppendix: Mixed Methods in Subway Research --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aNicknamed the International Express, the New York City Transit Authority 7 subway line runs through a highly diverse series of ethnic and immigrant neighborhoods in Queens. People from Andean South America, Central America, China, India, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, and Vietnam, as well as residents of a number of gentrifying blue-collar and industrial neighborhoods, fill the busy streets around the stations. The 7 train is a microcosm of a specifically urban, New York experience, in which individuals from a variety of cultures and social classes are forced to interact and get along with one another. For newcomers to the city, mastery of life in the subway space is a step toward assimilation into their new home.In International Express, the French ethnographer Stéphane Tonnelat and his collaborator William Kornblum, a native New Yorker, ride the 7 subway line to better understand the intricacies of this phenomenon. They also ask a group of students with immigrant backgrounds to keep diaries of their daily rides on the 7 train. What develops over time, they find, is a set of shared subway competences leading to a practical cosmopolitanism among riders, including immigrants and their children, that changes their personal values and attitudes toward others in small, subtle ways. This growing civility helps newcomers feel at home in an alien city and builds what the authors call a "situational community in transit." Yet riding the subway can be problematic, especially for women and teenagers. Tonnelat and Kornblum pay particular attention to gender and age relations on the 7 train. Their portrait of integrated mass transit, including a discussion of the relationship between urban density and diversity, is invaluable for social scientists and urban planners eager to enhance the cooperative experience of city living for immigrants and ease the process of cultural transition. 606 $aMulticulturalism$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aSubways$xSocial aspects$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aEthnic groups$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aImmigrants$xCultural assimilation$zNew York (State)$zNew York 615 0$aMulticulturalism 615 0$aSubways$xSocial aspects 615 0$aEthnic groups 615 0$aImmigrants$xCultural assimilation 676 $a305.8009747 700 $aTonnelat$b Ste?phane$01112160 702 $aKornblum$b William 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815009603321 996 $aInternational express$93961536 997 $aUNINA