Another reading relatable to Jackson’s pieces was this small reading titled as Casino Urbanism. It was basically from Stefan Al’s famous book “The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream”. It is a fascinating examination of the social, cultural, political, and ethical currents shaping the evolution of Las Vegas, from its origins as a lonesome desert railroad outpost into the gambling and entertainment mecca that it is today. Al presents the city in all its complexity—brimming with extravagance, immorality, ambition, corruption, luck, and loss—providing the reader with an enlightening look into the history of Las Vegas as a cultural icon, and its phenomenal manifestation as a symbolic reflection of American culture. He explains
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It was an answer to a number of questions posed by Peter Beilharz regarding the differences between these two ghettos-Black Ghetto in the US and Red Ghetto in Europe. He explains that there is a contradiction between public perception and social reality – immigrants are less separated and more integrated into the mainstream of national life. He writes “What the urban peripheries of Western Europe suffer from is not ghettoization, but the dissolution of the traditional working class caused by the normalization of mass unemployment and the spread of unstable and part-time jobs, as well as vilification in public debate”. Ghettoization thus is basically demonizing lower-class districts and weakening them socially and politically. All of this is still happening and there’s more of it to happen, it’s not a thing of the past. Wacquant also points out that immigration, discrimination and ‘diversity’ are not the driving forces behind the marginalization of the European peripheries even though they are pertinent issues. When I reflect on this reading, I can relate it to how people are treated differently by our law enforcement agencies based on what class and ethnicity they belong to. The Punjabis and Sindhis can easily get away with deadly crimes while other minorities can get into trouble without even doing …show more content…
Wilson says that Ghetto poverty in the United States has substantially increased and has especially become more confined to the cities in the Northeast and Midwest. He says the current definition of poverty does not accurately describe the extreme deprivation and hardship that is affecting these areas. Also, it seems that not just the number of ghetto areas has increased, but the number of poor in these areas and the severity of the economic deprivation among them has increased as well. There has also been a pattern of distinct segregation between areas with racial minorities and whites. This rise in ghetto area poverty due to unemployment and other social dislocations, has received lots of attention and seems to be a high priority in discussions that reflect the public agenda. This essay links structural and cultural arguments on inner-city social dislocations. It is relevant because Wilson’s theories go hand in hand with what we have covered so far in the class. I could relate this topic to so many things around us such as how can a family’s income influence a child’s ability to achieve success and make money since without the available resources that child cannot improve his or her
It was an answer to a number of questions posed by Peter Beilharz regarding the differences between these two ghettos-Black Ghetto in the US and Red Ghetto in Europe. He explains that there is a contradiction between public perception and social reality – immigrants are less separated and more integrated into the mainstream of national life. He writes “What the urban peripheries of Western Europe suffer from is not ghettoization, but the dissolution of the traditional working class caused by the normalization of mass unemployment and the spread of unstable and part-time jobs, as well as vilification in public debate”. Ghettoization thus is basically demonizing lower-class districts and weakening them socially and politically. All of this is still happening and there’s more of it to happen, it’s not a thing of the past. Wacquant also points out that immigration, discrimination and ‘diversity’ are not the driving forces behind the marginalization of the European peripheries even though they are pertinent issues. When I reflect on this reading, I can relate it to how people are treated differently by our law enforcement agencies based on what class and ethnicity they belong to. The Punjabis and Sindhis can easily get away with deadly crimes while other minorities can get into trouble without even doing …show more content…
Wilson says that Ghetto poverty in the United States has substantially increased and has especially become more confined to the cities in the Northeast and Midwest. He says the current definition of poverty does not accurately describe the extreme deprivation and hardship that is affecting these areas. Also, it seems that not just the number of ghetto areas has increased, but the number of poor in these areas and the severity of the economic deprivation among them has increased as well. There has also been a pattern of distinct segregation between areas with racial minorities and whites. This rise in ghetto area poverty due to unemployment and other social dislocations, has received lots of attention and seems to be a high priority in discussions that reflect the public agenda. This essay links structural and cultural arguments on inner-city social dislocations. It is relevant because Wilson’s theories go hand in hand with what we have covered so far in the class. I could relate this topic to so many things around us such as how can a family’s income influence a child’s ability to achieve success and make money since without the available resources that child cannot improve his or her