When government go wrong + institutional alternatives

Materials for class on Thursday, November 14, 2019

Contents

Slides

Download the slides from today’s class.

Links to stuff mentioned in class

• Paul Reeve, Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for Whiteness: Historical study of how Mormons were considered nonwhite throughout the 1800s and early 1900s
• Anthony Abraham Jack, The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students: In-depth sociological study of how elite colleges forget to look at the assets of their students and instead only consider the income side of financial assistance. He has a short version of his argument in the New York Times.
• The Parable of the Polygons: An interactive simulation of how individual preferences can cause entire societies to be segregated
• Atlanta redlining map: Overlay FHA maps of redlined areas onto modern Atlanta
• The Atlanta airport and College Park: You can overlay the plans for the 1967 expansion of ATL on top of existing Colelge Park homes
• The University of Virginia’s Racial Dot Map: Map showing the current distribution of the US population by race. Zoom in on Atlanta to see the lasting legacy of segregation and white flight.
• Hasan Minhaj on Utah’s (now dead) policy of housing the homeless

Clearest and muddiest things

Go to this form and answer these three questions:

1. What was the muddiest thing from class today? What are you still wondering about?
2. What was the clearest thing from class today?
3. What was the most exciting thing you learned?

I’ll compile the questions and send out answers after class.