WGS 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Feminist Theory, Death Of Freddie Gray, Rust Belt
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His type of neighborhood": died from a severed spine via police brutality. The institution is set up to not have transparency: we will let you know when we have information". Baltimore has erupted due to the lack of response. What do we know about baltimore: raven"s win riots damages during celebrations", dangerous, high crime city. Over 70% of police brutality is directed towards african americans. Less than 40% males finish high school: relation to the wire, maya hall (trans) also died. Not discussed: narrative of police brutality puts men"s death at the foreground. Women are disappearing from this narrative: high maternal death rates, high child mortality rates, food desert, how does neoliberalism relate to poverty. Money goes to failing schools instead of fixing public schools: rust belt city, movement to send jobs overseas. Lots of cities have never recovered from the loss of jobs and production. Union jobs supported people and now they"re gone and it will never recover.
