The Women of Brewster Place

1. The Women of Brewster Place Discussion

2. First Thoughts? • The Dawn and Dusk of a Ghetto • Illegitimacy and Poverty • “Brewster Place was the bastard child . . .” • Brewster Place & Linden Hills • “This is how poor people live. Melanie, you’re not poor. No, Mama, you’re not poor.” • The Power of Shakespeare • “The children chattered and tried to imitate some of the antics they had seen. Mama, Shakespeare’s black? Not yet.” • Stratification by the Stratified • “We shouldn’t be havin’ that here on Brewster and the association should do something about it.” • Man Problems • “But how you gonna be a man with them ball-busters tellin’ everybody it was my fault?” • The Right Connections • “But here was a different sort of power. The jungle-sharpened instincts of a man like that could move her . . . off of Brewster place for good.” Discussion Points

3. Children Born Out Of Wedlock Whites 29% Asians 17% Latinos 53% Blacks 72% 52% of single mothers below poverty line • First Thoughts? • The Dawn and Dusk of a Ghetto • Illegitimacy and Poverty • “Brewster Place was the bastard child . . .” • Brewster Place & Linden Hills • “This is how poor people live. Melanie, you’re not poor. No, Mama, you’re not poor.” • The Power of Shakespeare • “The children chattered and tried to imitate some of the antics they had seen. Mama, Shakespeare’s black? Not yet.” • Stratification by the Stratified • “We shouldn’t be havin’ that here on Brewster and the association should do something about it.” • Man Problems • “But how you gonna be a man with them ball-busters tellin’ everybody it was my fault?” • The Right Connections • “But here was a different sort of power. The jungle-sharpened instincts of a man like that could move her . . . off of Brewster place for good.” Discussion Points 41% of all births to single moms (CDC 2010)

4. First Thoughts? • The Dawn and Dusk of a Ghetto • Illegitimacy and Poverty • “Brewster Place was the bastard child . . .” • Brewster Place & Linden Hills • “This is how poor people live. Melanie, you’re not poor. No, Mama, you’re not poor.” • The Power of Shakespeare • “The children chattered and tried to imitate some of the antics they had seen. Mama, Shakespeare’s black? Not yet.” • Stratification by the Stratified • “We shouldn’t be havin’ that here on Brewster and the association should do something about it.” • Man Problems • “But how you gonna be a man with them ball-busters tellin’ everybody it was my fault?” • The Right Connections • “But here was a different sort of power. The jungle-sharpened instincts of a man like that could move her . . . off of Brewster place for good.” Discussion Points

5. Covered In More Detail In Sociology 255 Genocide Expulsion Voluntary and Involuntary Segregation De Jure and Defacto Exclusion Selective Exclusion Glass Ceilings • Numerus Clausus Ethnoviolence Direct Forms Of Discrimination

6. First Thoughts? • The Dawn and Dusk of a Ghetto • Illegitimacy and Poverty • “Brewster Place was the bastard child . . .” • Brewster Place & Linden Hills • “This is how poor people live. Melanie, you’re not poor. No, Mama, you’re not poor.” • The Power of Shakespeare • “The children chattered and tried to imitate some of the antics they had seen. Mama, Shakespeare’s black? Not yet.” • Stratification by the Stratified • “We shouldn’t be havin’ that here on Brewster and the association should do something about it.” • Man Problems • “But how you gonna be a man with them ball-busters tellin’ everybody it was my fault?” • The Right Connections • “But here was a different sort of power. The jungle-sharpened instincts of a man like that could move her . . . off of Brewster place for good.” Discussion Points

7. Cultural Capital Matters In Kindergarten Can Count To 20 White – 65% Black – 69% Hispanic – 42% In Kindergarten Recognizes All Letters White – 29% Black – 24% Hispanic – 16% In Kindergarten Read To Last Week White – 92% Black – 78% Hispanic – 72% Visited Library Recently White – 45% Black – 44% Hispanic – 32% Internet Access At Home White – 80% Black – 61% Hispanic – 67% SAT Scores (Q&V Only) White – 1061 Black – 862 Hispanic – 925 College Grad Or More White – 27% Black – 19% Hispanic – 13% HS Dropouts White – 11% Black – 13% Hispanic – 27% Covered In More Detail In Sociology 254

8. First Thoughts? • The Dawn and Dusk of a Ghetto • Illegitimacy and Poverty • “Brewster Place was the bastard child . . .” • Brewster Place & Linden Hills • “This is how poor people live. Melanie, you’re not poor. No, Mama, you’re not poor.” • The Power of Shakespeare • “The children chattered and tried to imitate some of the antics they had seen. Mama, Shakespeare’s black? Not yet.” • Stratification by the Stratified • “We shouldn’t be havin’ that here on Brewster and the association should do something about it.” • Man Problems • “But how you gonna be a man with them ball-busters tellin’ everybody it was my fault?” • The Right Connections • “But here was a different sort of power. The jungle-sharpened instincts of a man like that could move her . . . off of Brewster place for good.” Discussion Points

9. Covered In More Detail In Sociology 255 Black Democrats Are More Conservative Than Their Non-Black Peers Black Conservatism 70% of Black Californians voted for Prop 8 53% of Latinos and 49% of Whites/Asians did

10. First Thoughts? • The Dawn and Dusk of a Ghetto • Illegitimacy and Poverty • “Brewster Place was the bastard child . . .” • Brewster Place & Linden Hills • “This is how poor people live. Melanie, you’re not poor. No, Mama, you’re not poor.” • The Power of Shakespeare • “The children chattered and tried to imitate some of the antics they had seen. Mama, Shakespeare’s black? Not yet.” • Stratification by the Stratified • “We shouldn’t be havin’ that here on Brewster and the association should do something about it.” • Man Problems • “But how you gonna be a man with them ball-busters tellin’ everybody it was my fault?” • The Right Connections • “But here was a different sort of power. The jungle-sharpened instincts of a man like that could move her . . . off of Brewster place for good.” Discussion Points