University of Memphis Desmond Evicted Discussion

Prompt 1 – For this prompt, you will respond with your thoughts on at least one section of the Desmond Evicted reading.

Prompt 2 – For this prompt, you will post your thoughts about the information from the Poverty, Politics and Profit video.

Prompt 3 – Check out InvisiblePeople.tv:

http://invisiblepeople.tvLinks to an external site. 

Read the About section and watch some of the videos in the Stories section.  Post your responses here.

WARNING: This is raw video footage and may contain some offensive material.

Prompt 4 – Gentrification is one way that poverty, privilege and housing intersect.  Here is a short primer on the topic:  https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/gentrification.aspLinks to an external site. 

Here is an infographic about one form of gentrification in Memphis:

https://mlk50.com/2019/02/20/in-memphis-an-unfair-future/Links to an external site. 

What are your thoughts on this issue?  Are there ways that you think it could be addressed more fairly? 

Prompt 5 – For each of the social institutions we study this semester, you will have the option of making a Discussion post that applies what you learned in the module to something you have seen external to class.  Have you seen examples of it in the news or other media, like a television show, song or video game?  Link to it or paste in a screenshot and explain how concepts of poverty discussed in this module are illustrated.