People are affected by where they live. If someone grows up in a poor environment they will have a harder time becoming rich than a person who grows up in a rich environment. In the texts To Kill a Mockingbird, A Raisin in the Sun, and the documentary American Denial the people are affected by where they live, because they are limited by their surrounding area and might be of a lower class because of their setting. If people would look and see the effects of poverty maybe there would be more action; but instead, people turn a blind eye and let it happen.
In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee there is a very solid social structure between the townspeople and the outside community of Maycomb. The townspeople being the upper class, …show more content…
One of the experts featured in the documentary is Cultural Sociologist at Columbia University, Sudhur Venkatesh, who had a student when he was teaching about Gunnar Myrdal’s study and the student commented that it was like America was “a third world country” and Venkatesh elaborates comparing a black community to a Conrad Novel saying “let me guide you up river as we go into this very distant land, that’s seven blocks away from where your living at the time.”(32:18) people didn’t realize the racism that was going on because the black community was isolated from everyone else. Even though it’s only a few blocks doesn’t mean people will notice it. This student of Venkatesh had no idea what was going on in the predominantly black neighborhoods, even though they probably lived right next to one. Venkatesh went into these communities to give a survey. He asked the question, how does it feel to be black and poor? The people thought he was a Latino gang spy and eventually brought him to the gang leader who said, “if you really wanna know what life is like, you gotta get closer to people.”(American Denial 13:52). Scholars, alongside the general population, still don’t fully understand what goes on in these neighborhoods due to their poverty and isolation. Venkatesh thought he could find the answers with his survey, but he couldn’t because it wasn’t going to dig deep enough. This gang leader knew the only way that Venkatesh could find the answers he was looking for was if he lived how the people in these poor areas lived. These poor communities in reality are so close to other, richer areas, but they seem so far away economically due to the fact that nobody outside the community will go there. Consequently, These poor communities are isolated to the point where they
In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee there is a very solid social structure between the townspeople and the outside community of Maycomb. The townspeople being the upper class, …show more content…
One of the experts featured in the documentary is Cultural Sociologist at Columbia University, Sudhur Venkatesh, who had a student when he was teaching about Gunnar Myrdal’s study and the student commented that it was like America was “a third world country” and Venkatesh elaborates comparing a black community to a Conrad Novel saying “let me guide you up river as we go into this very distant land, that’s seven blocks away from where your living at the time.”(32:18) people didn’t realize the racism that was going on because the black community was isolated from everyone else. Even though it’s only a few blocks doesn’t mean people will notice it. This student of Venkatesh had no idea what was going on in the predominantly black neighborhoods, even though they probably lived right next to one. Venkatesh went into these communities to give a survey. He asked the question, how does it feel to be black and poor? The people thought he was a Latino gang spy and eventually brought him to the gang leader who said, “if you really wanna know what life is like, you gotta get closer to people.”(American Denial 13:52). Scholars, alongside the general population, still don’t fully understand what goes on in these neighborhoods due to their poverty and isolation. Venkatesh thought he could find the answers with his survey, but he couldn’t because it wasn’t going to dig deep enough. This gang leader knew the only way that Venkatesh could find the answers he was looking for was if he lived how the people in these poor areas lived. These poor communities in reality are so close to other, richer areas, but they seem so far away economically due to the fact that nobody outside the community will go there. Consequently, These poor communities are isolated to the point where they