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Poverty and Social Justice
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How can college students address issues of poverty and class stratification in America? What is the role of the academic classroom when celebrities and the corporate rich monopolize media attention, while the poor become visible only during devastating hurricanes, levee breaks, or other crises? How can students and professors make sense of the overlapping discourses of poverty? For example, we have “the deserving poor” and “the welfare mom.” What’s the difference between “absolute poverty” and “relative poverty”? We also need to make sense of the many sound bites: “welfare to work,” “basic human needs,” “us verses them,” and pop culture glamorization of ghetto cool. In what ways does talking about poverty construct or reinforce the average college student’s middle-class identity? How can the study of poverty enhance a student’s understanding of social justice? This learning community based on the theme of poverty and social justice will provide opportunities for students to think deeply and creatively about poverty in the Cleveland area. With professors from different disciplines aligned around this vexing social ill, we aim to derive a variety of approaches and perspectives on poverty. |
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