CAS AN 101 Lecture Notes - Isabel Wilkerson, Oscar Lewis, Sharecropping

• School: Boston University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: CAS AN 101
• Professor: Lia Calhoun

Document Summary

The people who populate her novels have been a part of the great migration. It happened in order for blacks to escape the deeply ingrained racism of the jim. He outlined his theory of the structural reasons of why the poor stay poor. Five families case studies in the study of poverty: the argument is this: Poor people are not only lacking resources. Their culture and value system keeps them poor. Oversimplified often: rendered the lives of poor people (or tried) Said that faulty systems were originally to blame. But once poor, led to a subculture: perpetuated their inability to escape the under class. His theory actually became most popular in the us. A huge influence on what became the moyhihan revolution. He was charged with addressing the growing problem of the american under class, and specifically black people. He ended up relying on oscar lewis"s culture of poverty concept.