TEACHING ABOUT POVERTY: CLASSROOM EXERCISES AND OBSERVATIONS ON URBAN AND RURAL STEREOTYPES

Abstract

When I ask my students what images come to mind when they think of the poor, their responses typically come without hesitation: "Ghetto." "City." "Tough." "Unfair." "Welfare." "Up against the odds." "Struggling." Even, usually softer and a bit sheepishly, "Black."
In responding this way, they are of course drawing from the popular, stereotypical...

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Subject Area(s):

Stratification/Mobility

Resource Type(s):

Class Activity

Class Level(s):

College 200