SOCI 4620 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Indulgence, Bill De Blasio, Tangled
24 Apr 2021
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Week 2 reading- invisible child (girl in the shadows- Elliot, andrea, invisible child new york times 2013 http://www. nytimes. com/projects/2013/invisible- child/#/?chapt=1. The smaller children lie tangled beside her, their chests rising and falling under winter coats and wool blankets. A few feet away, their mother and father sleep near the mop bucket they use as a toilet. She likes being first the first to be born, the first to go to school, the first to make the honor roll: even her name, dasani, speaks of a certain reach. The bottled water had come to brooklyn"s bodegas just before she was born, catching the fancy of her mother, who could not afford such indulgences. It hinted at a different, upwardly mobile clientele, a set of newcomers who over the next decade would transform the borough: dasani"s own neighborhood, fort greene, is now one of gentrification"s gems. Her family lives in the auburn family residence, a decrepit city-run shelter for the homeless.
