Neighborhoods of Milwaukee

is a geographic area—usually urban areas—where it is difficult to buy affordable, fresh, and quality food. These people don’t have accessible, affordable grocery stores and therefore must either by perishable and often less healthy options at neighborhood convenience stores. This problem especially affects people living in lower income areas and it is detrimental to their health and well being as well. My hometown of Racine, Wisconsin has serval large food deserts within the city. Although…

Most citizens aren’t informed about the corrupt housing system that are set in place within impoverished areas, such as areas in Milwaukee. They do not understand or seem to care how terrible the living conditions are for some low-income families. The difficulties in their lives seems to be overlooked and cast aside by people’s beliefs that poor areas cannot be helped. But, In Matthew Desmond’s Evicted, he elaborates his main focus which is to express that evictions are a cause, not a…

He conducted the survey in Milwaukee Eviction Court, through in in-person questionnaires of tenants who appeared in eviction court between January and February 201 (Eviction and Reproduction 95). 1,328 evictions were filed, but tenants only appeared in 378 cases and of those, 251 were interviewed (66.4% response rate) (Eviction and Reproduction 95). They were asked about their current residences (rent, number of bedrooms, etc.), outcome of their hearing (evicted, dismissed, postponed, etc.), and…

purpose of this study was to examine the nation’s oldest voluntary public school integration effort, Milwaukee’s Chapter 220 program, and describe its rise and decline. People of color experience a disproportionate amount of poverty in the urban neighborhoods, adding support to the argument that current high poverty, high minority demographics plaguing segregated school districts are vestiges of past discrimination that have yet to be removed. The paper provides qualitative, historical analysis…

caused many news sources to write articles arguing for or against their protests by use of ethos, pathos, and logos. The articles that will compared are from The Star Tribune and Black Lives Matter’s website (blacklivesmatter.com) and are titled “Milwaukee violence detracts from goals of shooting protests” and “A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement” respectively. Both articles use different ways of persuasion, Black Lives Matter’s website uses three instances of pathos and a two…

The List of Things You Can't Do When You're Black Just Got Bigger Everybody knows that DWB (Driving While Black) is a serious crime in many neighborhoods in America. DWB can lead to many serious legal issues such as getting pulled over by the police, questioned, and maybe even shot. It doesn't matter if the car is yours or the neighborhood is one that you belong in. Recently WSWB was added to the list of unwritten crimes. Walking Suspiciously While Black has become a surefire way to get…

American baseball icon Hank Aaron, nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank," is widely regarded as one of the greatest hitters in the history of the sport. He spent 21 years as an outfielder for the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves and two final years as a DH for the Milwaukee Brewers, setting several records and winning a number of honors along the way. Aron continues to hold many of baseball's most distinguished records today, including runs batted in (2,297), extra-base hits (1,477), total bases (6,856) and…

Opening his novel Evicted, Desmond draws the reader in with an account uncovering the social problems plaguing the city of Milwaukee. To involve the reader in his work, Desmond employs andragogy, bringing the experiences to the reader ultimately involving them in his novel (Desmond pg. 1-5). Specifically, problems revolving around housing and the lack of affordable housing in Milwaukee. Laying out the purpose of his book in the opening Author’s Note and Prologue, Matthew Desmond establishes his…

For this week’s readings, I am going to focus on the issue of growth in cities and what I found interesting in Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. According to the reading on The City as a Growth Machine by Logan Molotch, “one issue consistently generates consensus among local elite groups and separates them from people who use the city principally as a place to live and work: the issue of growth.” Meaning that the local elites in these cities are divided from…

In the United States of America along the western shore of Lake Michigan rests Milwaukee Wisconsin. The author of Evicted, Matthew Desmond, takes us into the lives of some of the most poverty-stricken neighborhoods in Milwaukee where families spend more than fifty percent of their limited earnings on housing. For many of the people within the book, eviction and hardship have become a daily part of life and even the smallest crisis can further complicate an already difficult situation. Scott…