As the opening title comes on screen in part two of
Beyond the Color Line, we have a group of several children in Chicago. They're all talking to the camera at once, but we can clearly hear one boy repeating that although he had lived in one of the Robert Taylor homes, "Now I live in a
house." We get a glimpse of several public housing communities in Chicago, and what the surrounding communities are like. One young man in particular discusses the dilemma of working a low-wage job clear across town, or earning far more by selling drugs. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the Harvard professor conducting the interviews, tells us that he's not sure he could've made it if he'd grown up in such a community, because of "the sheer
weight of poverty."
In a short essay of
at least four good paragraphs, address how some of the following would affect the way a person might think about him/herself:
- where a person lives
- who raised the person
- what the person's parents/guardians do for a living
- what job the person holds
- what the neighborhood looks like
- the presence of drugs in the home or neighborhood
- the presence of violence in the home or neighborhood
Make it 1-1/2 spaces, Times New Roman, 12-point.
