Urban Ghetto Analysis

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Waquant analyzed is focus on the political dimension decision that are made end up being at less part of second stages of modern urban ghetto refer to the ghetto jobless called the institutional ghetto sometime its called the communal. For example, this is where The Raisin in the Sun took places portrays a poor African-American family living in a small apartment the South Side of Chicago in the housing and there not enough space or room. The adult in the household all have a job and get paid well but still not enough to afford a better living. The family have opportunity to escape from poverty with a $10,000 life insurance check. They move out of the apartment, fulfilling the family’s long-term dream. Even though their family future seems …show more content…
This is the types of ghetto was entirely capitalist in fact there where job that maybe not the best paying job just like the Raisin in the Sun, Walter Lee Younger work as a chauffeur for a rich white man, His wife Ruth work in a private kitchen for rich wealth white people, and the Grandma work iron rich whites people clothes, so there job that don’t pay well and clearly they don’t have enough money the apartment they renting is too small for the family to be sharing, but jobless in another self not so much this something both Wilson and Waquant claim that if you look at this stages you find a communal that why sometime the word communalize get in most of the characterize position in the modern economy are fulfilled by the people who lived there and hold those position again they don’t get pay as much as white people in those position that show its ghetto not like in a community or community association so called Negro Newspapers or Negro sport team …show more content…
The second dimension refer to is that according to Waquant this all about politics it’s not just economic factors there couple transform of the inner city has he refers to as basically housing one of the things was going on is that housing which called public housing begin to do something that us trying to build work for agency like the Chicago housing authority the idea was to build it where the poor people are and focus build the high raise in poorest neighborhood that where people don’t have the money or the income to either buy house or rent apartment. These are the people mostly needed of public housing that where you got build them in the poor area where else you gone build public housing refers to as policy turn out to be a failure places full of crime that has a lot of people didn’t have job was on public assistant increase

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