HIST 1080 Lecture Notes - Trailer Park, Juvenile Delinquency, Hula Hoop
12 Mar 2014
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Feb. 28: growing up in the affluent society. Allan b rub with florence b rub , sunset trailer park . 1950 freedom for kids, parents were more authoritative, more wholesome, last age of innocence. More married women in the work face than prior to the world war. After ww2 age trumps gender, race, class as a division. Drop in age of birth rate and drop in age of marriage. Crestwood heights trying t improve childs life. Finding a fractured community men focus on money more than emotional needs of wife and kids (like absent fathers), wives are resentful and controlling of their children (smothering) Has crimes, violence, racism leads to juvenile delinquency. Who: allan berube & his family, working class, white. What: his childhood experiences in the working class community, not a bad neighbourhood, trailer homes, social class tensions, rules for children in trailer park (formal/informal), homosexuality. Who: adults and children, baby boomers, youth, catholic and protestant,
