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Epilogue: A Jamaican Story

Explore how race influences success in Jamaica through Gladwell's mother's journey and historical context of skin color advantages. Discusses societal norms and family lineage as factors in prosperity.

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Epilogue: A Jamaican Story

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  1. Epilogue: A Jamaican Story

  2. Hook/Journal Entry: -Does race play a role in how an individual can become successful?

  3. Summary of the Chapter: -Gladwell explains his mother’s story and pathway to success - Jamaican Social Phenomenon: people with lighter skin were given more advantages than people with darker skin -Jamaica’s Slave Plantation History: Slave owners often had children with theirblack slaves; those children were given special treatment and allowed to be house slaves instead of working in the field. This afforded them education, societal mannerisms, and further advantages. -Gladwell’s family had a long line of lighter- skinned ancestors, which enabled future family members to have more success. -Shopkeeper would most likely not have lent the money to someone with darker skin- ties twins ability to secure funding for college to skin color.

  4. Study Guide Questions: • Whose success does Gladwell discuss? Who is from Jamaica? Answer: Gladwell discusses his Mother’s success. Joyce Nation(Gladwell’s mother) and her twin sister Faith are from Jamaica.

  5. 2. What happened in Jamaica after William M. Macmillan published his exposing Jamaica’s education system? Answer: Macmillan published that his theories regarding the educational system were true. Riots broke out throughout the Caribbean, and people were killed and injured in Barbados. The British government proposed a series of “all-island” scholarships for academically minded students to go to private high schools.

  6. 3. How did the Chinese shopkeeper help Joyce actually go to college? Answer: Joyce borrowed money from the Chinese Shopkeeper whose children she had taught.

  7. 4. Upon what is the social structure in Jamaica partially based? Answer: Skin color- Lighter skinned people have more advantages.

  8. 5. Who have the advantage in the Jamaica of Gladwell’s great-great-great Grandmother’s time? Answer: Lights, olive, light brown… (White Europeans, Jamaicans (mulattos)

  9. 6. How did Daisy Ford have a “legacy of privilege”? Answer: Her skin color (lighter skin).

  10. 7. Explain Gladwell’s conclusion that “The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all” Answer: In this statement, Gladwell means that outliers are not really what we might consider outliers- people who have gotten ahead because of personal qualities. Instead, they are people who have benefited from what Gladwell calls “parentage and patronage”. People who appear to have succeeded through personal qualities, when in reality there are other factors.

  11. Group Activity: Critical Thinking: Read pages 281 (middle) - 283 (top) What do you think of the text?

  12. Individual Activity: Exit Slip • Something you learned. • Something you found interesting • Question you still have

  13. Conclusion: In conclusion, the Epilogue of Outliers states how seemingly random factors play a role in virtually guiding any success. Gladwell ends the novel acknowledging that history and community are the factors that make success possible, in his own family and beyond.

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