In class we considered our perceptions of "Ghetto" versus "Neighborhood". Out of that discussion we came up with bazillion questions. Below are some that might be good to use for your reading responses.
About Our America the book...
About Our America the book...
- What do they mean when they say "Our America"?
- How does Our America relate to Single Stories?
- What is daily life like in this neighborhood?
- Why are people scared of a ghetto when a neighborhood comes close to the same thing?
- Why did we describe the ghetto so badly?
- How is our perspctive "fixed" when we are young?
- How many times do people make single stories and not realize it?
- Why is examining this going to be helpful to us later on?
- Are we the stereotypes we come up with?
- How would I be viewed if I told people I lived in "the ghetto" as opposed to a "neighborhood"?
- Why do people create single stories to take away or dispossess other people?
- So how should we really think of the ghetto, outside of what we've seen?
- Are some parts of the ghetto safer than some "neighborhoods"?
- Are white neighborhoods really problem free? Do they have similar problems?
- Why do we think of the word "neighborhood" so positively if a ghetto is a neighborhood?
- Why do people automatically assume the ghetto is bad?
- Is this book about "ghetto" people?
- How is this similar to the Europe vs. Africa assignment we did?
- Would Adichie see the ghetto as a good thing?
- How will this help us in the long run?
- Why do people move to the ghetto?
- Why do people make single stories?
- Who controls the ghetto?
- Why are Blacks pushed towards ghettos?
- What is the definition of "ghetto"?
- Where did the word "ghetto" come from?
- Who made "the ghetto"?
- Where were the first ghettos?
- How does where you live influence how you live?
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