Poverty, Urban Ghettoes and the Inner City

Urban Ghettos and the Inner City

• We will see four different approaches on urban poverty in the United States and see how Evicted is different from these past approaches.
• Read:
  • Two short readings: “Re-evaluating the “Culture of Poverty” &” The man behind the underclass”
  • “The Cost of Racial and Class Exclusion in the Inner City: by Loic Wacquant and William Julius Wilson in The Urban Sociology Reader, pages 182-191
    • • This chapter is available in an eBook format. Click the link above and find pages 182-192
  • “Segregation and the Making of the Underclass” in The Urban Sociology Reader
    Douglass Massey and Nancy Denton, pages 192-201
    • This chapter is available in an eBook format. Click the link above and find pages 192-201.

Eviction 

• Read:
  • Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and profit in the American city (book purchase required)
    • Chapters 1-9, 11, 12, 17, 18, 24 and Epilogue.
      • Don’t be scared. It looks a lot, but this book is easy read.
  • “Stark Symbol of Pandemic in N.Y.: Homeless People Huddled on the Subway” in The New York Times
• Watch
  • An interview with Desmond

• Watch this video about poor Americans living in trailer parks: Tucson: Trailer park living for America’s poor