Luke Bergmann: ‘Getting Ghost’
‘Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggles for the Soul of an American City’ by Luke Bergmann is a book about the research that he conducted in the year 2000, in Detroit. “Detroit is known as one of the poorest countries in the US. A third of residents live in poverty. Detroit’s neighborhoods are highly divided along race and class lines, and are the most segregated in the country. The East and West sides of Detroit are almost exclusively African American and low income, for example, while the outer suburbs are often exclusively inhabited by whites or other ethnic groups (such as Arab immigrants in Dearborn)” (Background Sheet, 2014,1).
Luke Bergmann is a graduate student in Anthropology from the University …show more content…
The lines between being a child or an adult are blurred in their lives as they keep moving back and forth between being an adult and a child and sometimes they consider themselves as both at once. “Most of them are adolescents: somewhere between children and adults. They are in the nascent stages of understanding their sexual, economic, and political subjectivities. Many are in and out of school. Some are parents themselves, though with varying degrees of responsibility for their children” (Luke Bergmann, 2008, from now on this source will be referred to by page number, (154)). Therefore, associating themselves as a child and an adult can sometimes be an advantage for these young Detroit adolescent, as being prosecuted as a child will mean less …show more content…
It also helped shape their social identity in terms of it resulting in many African American youth from Detroit having an individual course through teenage years because of the lack of distinct rites of passage, and their lifestyle in terms of illegal substances, guns, violence and death. Their culture created a set of behavior and values that formed their lives but also helped shape the broader
‘Getting Ghost: Two Young Lives and the Struggles for the Soul of an American City’ by Luke Bergmann is a book about the research that he conducted in the year 2000, in Detroit. “Detroit is known as one of the poorest countries in the US. A third of residents live in poverty. Detroit’s neighborhoods are highly divided along race and class lines, and are the most segregated in the country. The East and West sides of Detroit are almost exclusively African American and low income, for example, while the outer suburbs are often exclusively inhabited by whites or other ethnic groups (such as Arab immigrants in Dearborn)” (Background Sheet, 2014,1).
Luke Bergmann is a graduate student in Anthropology from the University …show more content…
The lines between being a child or an adult are blurred in their lives as they keep moving back and forth between being an adult and a child and sometimes they consider themselves as both at once. “Most of them are adolescents: somewhere between children and adults. They are in the nascent stages of understanding their sexual, economic, and political subjectivities. Many are in and out of school. Some are parents themselves, though with varying degrees of responsibility for their children” (Luke Bergmann, 2008, from now on this source will be referred to by page number, (154)). Therefore, associating themselves as a child and an adult can sometimes be an advantage for these young Detroit adolescent, as being prosecuted as a child will mean less …show more content…
It also helped shape their social identity in terms of it resulting in many African American youth from Detroit having an individual course through teenage years because of the lack of distinct rites of passage, and their lifestyle in terms of illegal substances, guns, violence and death. Their culture created a set of behavior and values that formed their lives but also helped shape the broader