Table of Contents
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
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- This chapter is available in an eBook format. Click the link above and find pages 182-192
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- “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.
EvictionÂ
- 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.
- Chapters 1-9, 11, 12, 17, 18, 24 and Epilogue.
- “Stark Symbol of Pandemic in N.Y.: Homeless People Huddled on the Subway” in The New York Times
- Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and profit in the American city (book purchase required)
- Watch
- An interview with Desmond
- Watch this video about poor Americans living in trailer parks:Â Tucson: Trailer park living for America’s poor
