Urban Studies

URBS 310 – SECOND PAPER

Due: Tuesday, 8th (you can submit earlier if you wish)

Answer the question below.  Your answer should be a minimum of 4 pages and a maximum of 5 pages (double-spaced, 12 point font, & one-inch margins). 

QUESTION: 

Watch the following video

“What Poor Child Is This?  Poverty and America’s Children.” 

And,

Read Wilson ("The political and economic forces shaping concentrated poverty.") and

and Levy chapter 11.

What, according to Wilson, are the causes of poverty today, particularly among African-Americans in inner-city communities?  What does he mean by racial vs. non-racial policies?  Summarize the urban renewal program discussed in Levy and Wilson.  Finally, discuss several scenes of the video and related those scenes to the readings.