For
this project the othered community I think I will be discussing are the poverty
and crime stricken residents of places like Brownsville New York in areas which
are considered “ghettos”. I’ve chosen
this group because it is a large group of people that occur in almost every
megalopolis, where changing eras have transformed once booming inner cities
into places of poverty and turmoil.
These places are othered by other residences of the cities, by police
and just the general public. I think
that I will find myself looking at more texts about the culture by others as I think
there is a lot of research on those types of areas, more specifically I think
that I have seen a lot of research on those areas in the criminal justice
classes I have been taking. I will most
likely be using a collection of online news articles as that’s generally what I
use for projects such as this, however, I might use a video to switch things up
a little bit. Right now I’m thinking
that for the most part I understand the requirements of this project and how to
go about getting started with it. I think this should be a fairly interesting
topic especially because I have touched on this subject briefly in other
classes.
Hi Patricia,
ReplyDeleteI think this is a great project idea and I'm glad you're going to be able to build on thinking you've done in other classes! I'm a little unsure, though, about how you are defining your group. Are you going to define them based on the places they live or on income level? Or both? You'll want to be specific about how your defining the group you're looking at. I wonder if it might also be worth narrowing your group by some geographical area. So could you look at, for example news articles about people in North Omaha? Or does that sound to specific for what you want to do?
Remember, for this project your goal is less to do "traditional research" and more to look at regular every day texts that are representing this group of people. So, I think focusing on things like news articles or newscasts would be great!