"Everyday Experience in American Ghettoes"

Mario Small, Ph.D.
Dean of the Social Sciences Division
Professor of Sociology
University of Chicago

"Everyday Experience in American Ghettoes:  Are Some Cities More Punishing than Others?"

By the end of the 20th century, the dominant theories of urban poverty argued that U.S. ghettoes had become isolated areas devoid of everyday institutions and disconnected from mainstream society.  I examine whether the conventional models have underestimated the extent of heterogeneity across U.S. ghettoes and its consequences for the everyday experiences of those who live in them.

Monday, May 12, 2014
Haldeman 041, 3:30 pm
Co-sponsored by the African and African-American Studies Program, and the Geography Department