SOC-UA 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Psychological Trauma
21 Nov 2016
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She wrote 6 part article series about poverty in nyc, took 15 months. Previously was interested in the lives of muslims after 9/11, was always drawn to stories a(cid:271)out the u(cid:374)derdog, (cid:449)hose (cid:448)oi(cid:272)es (cid:449)ere(cid:374)"t (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g heard. Became story about domestic radicalization & islamic militancy, then decided to move on to something new. Read (cid:271)ook (cid:272)alled (cid:862)there are (cid:374)o (cid:272)hildre(cid:374) here(cid:863) a(cid:271)out (cid:271)rothers li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g i(cid:374) po(cid:448)ert(cid:455) i(cid:374) chi(cid:272)ago. Children in america lives below poverty line. Wa(cid:374)ted to do so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g differe(cid:374)t, so de(cid:272)ided to tell stor(cid:455) a(cid:271)out kid fro(cid:373) i(cid:374)side kid"s head, write in simple language. Was looki(cid:374)g for fresh stor(cid:455), (cid:271)ut i(cid:374)stead (cid:449)e(cid:374)t (cid:449)ith (cid:862)stereot(cid:455)pi(cid:272)al(cid:863) t(cid:455)pe of po(cid:448)ert(cid:455) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause the child she found was super dynamic. New type of poverty: working class, or maybe just left workforce, new demographic = hispanic. This county of ny has some of the poorest neighborhood + loads of 1 percenters. These two world are living together, which justifies writing about both.
