Poverty and Literature


 

EU71


 

Spragins


 

Spring 2014

3rd Period Even Days; Drop Down Day 1


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Second Semester Topics:

 


Urban Injustice: How Ghettos Happen (2004) by David Hilfiker, MD




 


Maggie:  a Girl of the Streets (1892) by Stephen Crane

 

 

 

 


The Promised Land (1991) by Nicholas Lemann, Clarksdale and Chicago

 

 

 

 


Richard Wright (1908-1960)

Native Son (1940) by Richard Wright

 

 

 

 


LBJ Signs War on Poverty Bill, July 23, 1964

The Promised Land (1991) Nicholas Lemann, Washington

 

 

 

 


Tally’s Corner (1964) by Elliott Lebow

 

 

 

 

Jitney (1977) by August Wilson

 


The Wire (2004-10) by David Simon and Edward Burns

 

 

 

Between the World and Me (2015)  by Ta-Nehesi Coates

William Julius Wilson, New Yorker Profile

Recent Articles on Baltimore, Public Education and African American Studies

 

  • Schooled: Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark's schools. They got an education. by Dale Russakoff  The New Yorker 5-19-14
  • The Growth of Incarceration in the United States:
    Exploring Causes and Consequences
    (2014) Committee on Causes and Consequences of High Rates of Incarceration; Committee on Law and Justice (CLAJ); Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE); National Research Council
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Case for Reparations: Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole. The Atlantic (May 2014)
  • David Leonhardt, Is College Worth It? Clearly, New Data Say:  The pay gap between college graduates and everyone else is wider than ever, so for all the struggles that many face, a four-year degree has probably never been more valuable. NY Times 5-27-14
  • Lyndsey Layton, In New Orleans, the end of public schooling as we know it? By this fall, the district will be the nation’s first made up of only public charter schools. Washington Post 6-1-14
  • The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has stated that Baltimore has bar none the highest per capita rate of heroin addiction in the country. The city's department of health has estimated this number to be as high as 8 to 10 percent of the total population. Baltimore has an estimated population of 650,000 residents, and if the department of health, and the federal government are correct that translates to over 50,000 heroin addicts.Carter M. Yang, Baltimore Is the U.S. Heroin Capital March 14, 2014 (ABC News)
  • Wes Moore, Changing Baltimore's Storyline
    We should tell the stories of Baltimore that weren't in 'The Wire'  (Sun 6-10-14) (video) The Other Wes Moore (2010)
  • Darlena Cunha. This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps: A former TV producer chronicles her swift descent into poverty and what it taught her. Washington Post  July 8 2014;  Amanda Erikson, Follow-up: What prompted me to write this  Washington Post  July 9 2014
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Cory Booker, Senator from New Jersey and former mayor of Newark


Paul Ryan, United States Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district since 1999 and will be the new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee . He was the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2012 election

George Will,  The harm incurred by a mushrooming welfare state (Post 1-22-15); Slouching toward disability (Post 10-26-12) 

Nicholas Eberstadt, American Exceptionalism and the Entitlement State National Affairs Winter 2015

 


Preliminary Poll  (Survey Monkey) (Results)  (Results 2006-08)


The Debate:


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Sarah's Uncertain Path NYT 1-21-14
Profiling a pregnant teenager in Missouri, this short documentary provides a window into rural poverty in America's heartland.

 

Hilfiker Essay due on Monday, February 10th at 3:30 pm

Urban Injustice: How Ghettos Happen by David Hilfiker, MD  


Introduction:

Chapter One, "Building the Ghetto: A History" (Study Guide) (Answers) (Hilfiker Outline)

Discussion: The Causes of Poverty:

  • Macro vs. Micro Effects;
  • Intended vs. Unintended; 
  • Government Action vs. Private Action

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The Problem We All Live With, Norman Rockwell (illustration for Look 1964)


"On Their Own", a series on homeless high school students from The Sun (Oct. 2005) by BMS grad Liz Bowie


Todd Heisler/ The New York Times
1-3-07 Elissa Gootman, Trying to Find Solutions in Chaotic Middle Schools NY Times

 

Urban Injustice: How Ghettos Happen by David Hilfiker, MD

Hilfiker Essay due on Monday, February 10th at 3:30 pm


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Cliffdwellers  (1913) George Bellows (high resolution)


Jacob Riis, Mulberry Street


Jacob Riis, Bandit's Roost




Hilfiker Essay due at 3:30 pm


Progressivism and Naturalism Projects


Realism vs. Naturalism

Stephen Crane: Maggie A Girl of the Streets (1892)


Homework:

For further reading:






 

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Little Mother (1890) Jacob Riis


42 Kids (1907) George Bellows


Stag at Sharkey's (1909) George Bellows


Typical Toughs (1890) Jacob Riis
How the Other Half Lives (1890)


Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (part oneStudy Guide
(Lecture One)

Essay on Maggie due Thursday 2/20 at 3:30 pm. (Quiz)
  • Setting: Describe the situation of children who grow up in the Rum Alley ghetto.
  • Plot: What can you predict will happen to the heroine in a melodrama?
  • Pay close attention to Crane's style: what is his perspective on his characters?
  • Can you pinpoint a moment in Jimmie’s development when he could have altered the final shape of his character?
  • Can you pinpoint a moment in Maggie's development into adulthood when she could have altered the final shape of her character? (Look carefully at the moment when Maggie realizes the future which awaits her in the factory.)

Overview:
  • What are we to make of Crane’s brutal ridicule of the poor? Is his stereotyping justifiable? What does he find most contemptible about Jimmie, Pete and Maggie? Could he be as savage in his depiction of the impoverished today? (Imagine Pete as a black man or as an Hispanic?)


Homework:


For further reading:

Bowery Boy Movies:



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Henri, Robert
Salome 1909
Mead Art Museum

Fighting for Scraps  Katherine Boo’s ‘Behind the Beautiful Forevers’ Explores a Mumbai Slum



Essay on Maggie due Thursday 2/20 at 3:30 pm.


Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (part two) (Quiz 2) Study Guide  (Lecture)

  • What is the primary obstacle to Maggie achieving the insight necessary to understand her situation? What makes her unable to accomplish this goal? Do you hold her responsible?
  • What could Maggie have learned from Nellie? Would that have saved her?
  • What has Maggie realized at the moment that she is dumped by Pete? What options does Maggie have at this point? 
  • Could Maggie have done anything to interrupt this slide down the slippery slope?



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Criticism on Maggie:


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National Child Labor Committe(1905) Lewis Hines


Lange, Breadline (1936)

 
Lange,  Migrant Mother Photos from Farm Security Administration  Photos (1936-38) (LOC)

 

Essay on Maggie due Thursday 2/20 at 3:30 pm.


The Underclass Debate:

  • "The Underclass"- a group beyond the help of government
  • Term emerges in 1977-82 era
  • Time: drugs, crime, teen pregnancy, unemployed,
    socially alienated, school dropouts, welfare moms,
    Urban decay, black hole of welfare spending
  • Ken Auletta in 1977 Time Magazine article entitled "The American Underclass" suggested that a whole class of people were emerging in the inner city who might be beyond the reach of any form of help: a) passive poor, b) hostile street criminals c) hustlers,  d) drunks/addicts/homeless

Photography and Ideology:



Introduction to The Promised Land (1991) by Nicholas Lemann


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Lemann, The Promised Land Clarksdale (pp1-58) (Study Guide) (Answers)

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McCormick-Deering Cotton Picker (1932)

 

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Apartment Building in Chicago's
"Black Belt" (LOC)


The Robert Taylor Homes


 

 

Lemann, The Promised Land  Chicago (59-107) (Study Guide) (Answers)

Homework:

Character Projects on The Promised Land:
  • Ruby Daniels
  • George Hicks
  • Bennie Gooden
  • Aaron Henry
  • Uless Carter
  • Lillian Henry


 

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Richard Wright (1908-1960)



Canada Lee as Bigger Thomas


Backgrounds to Richard Wright

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The Skywriter

 

Essay Assignment on Native Son,


Wright, Native Son, Book One: "Fear" (Study Guide) (Discussion)


Saturday Morning in the Thomas’ Apartment (3-12)
On the Street  (12-22)
The Pool Hall (22- 29)

At The Movies (29-34)
Terrorizing Gus (34-41)
The Interview (42-51)

Mary, Peggy and the Blind Woman  (51-62)
The Night Ride with Mary and Jan  (62-80)
Bigger and Mary Stumble Towards Bed  (80-87)
The Furnace (87-93)

 

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The Pool Hall


Bigger and Mary

 

Essay Assignment on Native Son,

Wright, Native Son, Book 1: "Fear"  (Study Guide) (Discussion)


Saturday Morning in the Thomas’ Apartment (3-12)
On the Street  (12-22)
The Pool Hall (22- 29)

At The Movies (29-34)
Terrorizing Gus (34-41)
The Interview (42-51)

Mary, Peggy and the Blind Woman  (51-62)
The Night Ride with Mary and Jan  (62-80)
Bigger and Mary Stumble Towards Bed  (80-87)
The Furnace (87-93)

 

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Richard Wright as Bigger Thomas and Gloria Madison as Bessie Mears in the 1950 film version of Native Son


Ato Essandoh, as Bigger Thomas, and Felicia V. Loud, as Bessie, star in "Native Son" at Intiman Theatre.

 

Essay Assignment on Native Son


Wright, Native Son, Book 2, "Flight" (Study Guide Book Two) (Discussion)

New Consciousness (97-116)
Improvisation (116-129)
Bessie (129-149)
Interrogation (149-172)

The Ransom Plan (172-184)
Discovery (184-220)
Flight  (220-241)
The Manhunt (241-270)

 

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New Masses (May, 1933)


Wright, Native Son, Book 2, "Flight" (study guide book 2) (discussion)
 

New Consciousness (97-116)
Improvisation (116-129)
Bessie (129-149)
Interrogation (149-172)

The Ransom Plan (172-184)
Discovery (184-220)
Flight  (220-241)
The Manhunt (241-270)


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Max and Bigger Intiman Theatre
Seattle (2006)

 

Wright, Native Son, Book 3, "Fate" (Study Guide) (discussion)

Bigger’s Cell (271- 310)

The Inquest (310-340)

Interview with Max (341- 363)

The Trial (363- 418)

Max’s Speech (382-415)       

Bigger Achieves Consciousness (418)

 

 

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Atto Essandoah as Bigger Thomas Intiman Theatre, Seattle (2006)

 

Wright, Native Son, Book 3, "Fate" (Study Guide) (discussion)

Bigger’s Cell (271- 310)

The Inquest (310-340)

Interview with Max (341- 363)

The Trial (363- 418)

Max’s Speech (382-415)       

Bigger Achieves Consciousness (418)

 

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MLK


RFK

 

Essay Assignment on Native Son, due 3:30 p.m.

 

War on Poverty Flow Chart due Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.

 

The Post-War Liberal Consensus

Helpful Chronological Framework

Review: Hilfiker on The War on Poverty

1960s Poverty Awareness (11)
Civil Rights Movement (11)
Vietnam (11)
Black Power Movement (11)
Riots (12)
Moynihan Report (12)
AFDC (12)
Great Society Funding Levels (12)
Failure of the Great Society (12)


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LBJ


Malcolm X


 

War on Poverty Flow Chart due Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.


Helpful Chronological Framework


Class Discussion: What does it take to fight a “War on Poverty”? (just like a “War on Drugs” or a “War on Terrorism”)

Lemann, The Promised Land Washington,  (study guide) (study guide googledocs) (outline) (outline googledocs) (answers)


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Daniel Patrick Moynihan  (1927-2003)


Richard Nixon (1913-94)

 

War on Poverty Flow Chart due Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.


Lemann, The Promised Land Washington,  (study guide) (study guide googledocs) (outline) (outline googledocs) (answers)


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Will The McDonald's Employee Budget Help Get The Minimum Wage Raised? (Forbes) (7/18/2013)

How She Lives On Minimum Wage: One McDonald's Worker's Budget (Forbes) (7/19/2013)

Minimum Wage Excel Spreadsheet

Spent! (Minimum Wage Budget Game)

 

War on Poverty Flow Chart due at 3:30 p.m.


Introduction to Talley's Corner (1966) by Elliott Liebow


Context:

  • The War on Poverty: Riots, Vietnam (1966)
  • The Moynihan Report (1965): crisis of inner city family
  • Refocus issue from delinquency (criminal teenagers) and dependency (welfare mothers) to the villain of the story, the absent adult male.
 

Method:

  • Not Sociology: data gathered by social workers, census workers, parole officers, and teachers using questionnaires to generate statistical reports.
  • Urban Anthropology: long term participant-observation of a culture by meeting individuals on their own turf and on their own terms (as if studying a native culture).
  • Liebow invented the discipline, or rather he renamed it: its practitioners used to be called reporters and novelists.
 

Setting:

  • Washington, DC (1962-63): How was the ghetto different in 1963?
  • The New Deal Carry Out Shop

The Cast:

  • Tally; Sea Cat; Richard; Leroy
 

Problems?

  • Who funded the research? Who is Elliott Liebow? How did he select what would be included in this book? How did the men on the corner manipulate him? What is his ideological perspective?

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Paul Ryan, United States Representative

Ryan’s Budget Would Cut $5 Trillion in Spending Over a Decade (NY Times)

Idea to overhaul social welfare assistance with guaranteed income spurs debate and diverse support (Making Sense)

 

Talley's Corner (1966) by Elliott Liebow, Chapters 1 and 2 (Study Guide 1,2) (Lesson Plan 1) (Talley's Corner Essay) (Googledocs Study Guide) Minimum Wage Excel Spreadsheet


Fun with Numbers:


The Inflation Calculator: $1.00 (1962)= $7.60 (2014)

  • Federal Minimum Wage: $7.25 (2014)= $0.72 (1962) (The real minimum wage was $1.00 in 1962)
  • Laborer Wage: $1.50 to $2.65 an hour= $11.40 to $20.14 an hour (2014) 
  • Top Pay for Jobs Available to Corner Men: $45.00 per week= $342.03 (2014)
  • Rent= $12-20 per week=  $91.21(26%) -$152.01 (44% per week) (I pay @ 18% of my income on rent per week.)

 

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Talley's Corner Essay


Write a paragraph about Chapter Two: "Men and Jobs:
(Study Guide 1,2) (Googledocs Study Guide 1 and 2)

  • Main Idea: Why is getting and keeping a job a low priority on the corner scale of real values? What conclusion is Liebow leading us towards? Is his evidence convincing?

Talley's Corner 3 and 4  (Study Guide 3,4 (Googledocs Study Guide 3 and 4Minimum Wage Excel Spreadsheet


Chapter 3: "Fathers Without Children":

  • Main Idea: How can we inform our judgment of "deadbeat dads" by considering the influence of environment and culture?


Chapter 4: "Husbands and Wives":

  • Main Idea: What impact does economic insecurity have on the relationships between man and woman in the corner culture?


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Ta-Nehisi Coates, ‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’: The audacity of Bill Cosby’s black conservatism,   Atlantic Monthly May 2008 (for further reading: “the Pound Cake speech”; “Come On People)


Talley’s Corner, 5 and 6 (Study Guide 5,6)

Chapter 5: "Lovers and Exploiters": Main Idea: How does economic insecurity turn physical attraction into 'cynical, self-serving marauding'?

Chapter 6: "Friends and Networks": Why do attempts to organize and maintain solidarity fail?

 

Homework:

Talley’s Corner, 7 and Appendix (Study Guide 7, Appendix)

 

 

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Talley's Corner Essay due Friday, April 22nd at 3:30 p.m.


Talley’s Corner, 7 and Appendix (Study Guide 7, Appendix)


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The House I Live In: David Simon on drug laws – video Guardian

The Wire creator David Simon on what's behind the US war on drugs - extended video interview  Guardian May 2013

Kurt Schmoke, The Wire and the real Baltimore:  What the hit television drama - having just entered its fifth and final season - tells us about the city I governed and America's war on drugs  Guardian  January 11 2008

Is this the best TV series ever made? The Observer, Saturday 19 July 2008


"Facing Up to Baltimore's Reality on HBO" Pamela Haag Christian Science Monitor Aug 6, 2007

Ylan Q. Mui,  Long-term unemployed struggle to find — and keep — jobs: Research suggests joblessness becoming harder to escape The Washington Post   APR 18 2014

City selling Baltimore’s high-rise public housing to private entities: Participation in new federal program will mean housing subsidies for developers – and uncertainty for tenants Melody Simmons, Baltimore Brew 2/27/2014

'The Wire' Season Four (Googlemaps)


 


Talley’s Corner Essay Due Friday at 3:30 pm

From The Culture of Poverty to “The Underclass”:

  • "The Underclass"- a group beyond the help of government
  • Conservatives seize the ‘Culture of Poverty'  term in 1977-82 era.
  • Drugs, crime, teen pregnancy, unemployed, socially alienated, school dropouts, welfare moms, urban decay, and the black hole of welfare spending.
  • Ken Auletta in 1977 Time Magazine article entitled "The American Underclass" suggested that a whole class of people were emerging in the inner city who might be beyond the reach of any form of help:
  • The Underclass:

a)     not listed as unemployed because they have given up even looking for a job.

b)     hostile street criminals and hustlers

c)     incorrigible welfare moms

d)     school dropouts

e)     drunks/addicts/ the homeless

  • West Baltimore, 1998:
    • Bethlehem Steel is Gone.
    • The Middle Class is Gone.
    • Concentrated Poverty in High Rise Housing: (Laffayette Courts came down in 1995; The Franklin Terrace Demolition (really Lexington Terrace in 1996) (Season 3 Episode 1)
    • The Evolution of the Drug Corner: Crack Cocaine, ‘Deregulation’ of the Drug Trade and the Disintegration of the Single Parent Family
    • Reagan Era Cuts in Social Services: (Public Education, Child Care, Housing Assistance)
    • Public Education in the Ghetto: The Last Best Hope for Corner Kids
    • Jobs: No Market for Unskilled Labor
    • Police Policy: The War on Drugs: Zero Tolerance, Three Strikes, Stop and Frisk, Hot Spots and Prison as a Growth Industry vs. Community Policing, The Paper Bag Law, Drug Treatment and Rec Centers for Kids (Community Action)
    • Councilman Martin O'Malley Runs for Mayor

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Michael

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Sherrod

Talley’s Corner Essay Due Friday at 3:30 pm

Final Project:

The Wire: Season Four: Key Moments for the Corner Kids
  • Herc, Carver and Randy (Juvenile Justice)
  • Prez and Dukie (Public School Teachers)
  • Bunny and Namond (Special Education)
  • Cutty and Michael (Community Rec Leagues and After School Programs)
  • Bubbles and Sherrod (Homeless Children)
  • Marlow and all of them (The Corner Drug Kingpin)

Essay Question: How does 'The Wire' characterize the efforts of adults and public institutions to reach out to middle school agde kids in need? Is this depiction accurate?

Search the season's episodes for moments which involve your kid. Research the institution connected to the relationship your kid develops with an adult who tries to intervene in the child's life.

Use the Googledocs page to create an index of key moments. Be prepared to present to the class.

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Bubbles

Bunny

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Prez

TThe Wire: Season Four: Key Moments for the Corner Kids
  • Herc, Carver and Randy (Juvenile Justice)
  • Prez and Dukie (Public School Teachers)
  • Bunny and Namond (Special Education)
  • Cutty and Michael (Community Rec Leagues and After School Programs)
  • Bubbles and Sherrod (Homeless Children)
  • Marlow and all of them (The Corner Drug Kingpin)

Essay Question: How does 'The Wire' characterize the efforts of adults and public institutions to reach out to middle school agde kids in need? Is this depiction accurate?

Search the season's episodes for moments which involve your kid. Research the institution connected to the relationship your kid develops with an adult who tries to intervene in the child's life.

Use the Googledocs page to create an index of key moments. Be prepared to present to the class.


Homework:


Readings from The Corner (1997) by Simon and Burns

 

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The Corner of Monroe and Fayette in West Baltimore

Group targets Baltimore vacants with art, activism (Sun 8-10-13)


 


The Wire Projects:


Essay Question: How does The Wire characterize the efforts of adults and public institutions to reach out to middle school agde kids in need? Is this depiction accurate?

Search the season's episodes for moments which involve your kid. Research the institution connected to the relationship your kid develops with an adult who tries to intervene in the child's life.

Use the Googledocs page to create an index of key moments. Be prepared to present to the class.


Readings from The Corner (1997) by Simon and Burns


Homework:

  • The Wire Projects

 

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David Simon

Essay Question: How does The Wire characterize the efforts of adults and public institutions to reach out to middle school agde kids in need? Is this depiction accurate?

The Wire Projects: Presentations
  • Herc, Carver and Randy (Police and Juveniles)
  • Prez and Dukie (Public School Teachers)
  • Bunny and Namond (Special Education)
  • Cutty and Michael (Community Rec Leagues and After School Programs)
  • Bubbles and Sherrod (Homeless Shelters; NA)

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Harvard Department of Sociology

Wilson's book When Work Disappears has been cited as an inspiration for the second season of the HBO show The Wire.

OSI-Baltimore Turns 15 (Sun)



 

Wilson, New Yorker Profile; Reading Guide; (GoogleDocs)

 

Homework:


The Conservative Final Word:


For further reading:

 

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60 years after Brown v. Board of Ed, pockets of segregation remain in Md. schools by Liz Bowie and Erica L. Green, The Baltimore Sun 5-11-14

David L. Kirp, The Benefits of Mixing Rich and Poor: Head Start succeeds when all children are enrolled. NY Times 5-11-14

Roland Park Country School to open public charter school:  Believed to be first private school in the nation to take such a step   Larry Perl,
The Baltimore Sun 11-22-13

City officials celebrate passage of $1B school construction bill:  'One year ago, I don't think any of us thought we would be here,' Jones-Rodwell says   by Luke Broadwater, The Baltimore Sun 4-11-13

Assembly leaders back financing plan for $1 billion in city school construction by
Erin Cox and Luke Broadwater,  The Baltimore Sun 3-18-13

 



The Conservative Final Word: "Are jobs the solution?" (Notes) Loury, Glenn C. The Wilson Quarterly. Washington: Autumn 1996.Vol. 20

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"Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?" Glenn C. Loury,  Boston Review July/August 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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