This course explores the ways in which objects and material culture embody personal narrative. Moving back and forth from ephemeral traces of events and experiences to the culturally invested luxury goods that create legacy to the objects that facilitate daily life, this class will use, as its primary references, examples that draw from queer and African American cultures to underscore the potential of objects to tell the stories that not only reflect majority traditions and experiences but those of the disenfranchised, the details of whose lives are often obscured. In addition to readings that will provide background for class discussion, student will be asked to play the roles of detectives, archeologists, and curators at various sites around New York City. Each student will also be asked to create an annotated material record that reveals the public and private lives of one individual. That record may consist of texts, objects or any variety of media chosen or designed by the student. This blogs serves as an archive for the work done in the context of this course and related materials that become relevant to this exploration.

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Little progress in drawing poor to elite colleges

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/education/despite-promises-little-progress-in-drawing-poor-to-elite-colleges.html?ref=education&gwh=0C85F903D41B8E3212B169F66B01D4F9&gwt=pay&assetType=nyt_now


With the earlier article, this is also in lieu of affirmative action and education.
This one focuses more on social inequality in general population in higher education.
In the article, they mention that it's not just about going to any college; going to elite schools is almost like inheritance and that is part of the reason the population rate of students from poorer half the country has not risen in the last 10 years.

After reading the article, I looked further into aid programs that support and raises awareness of possibility of students from lower income class going to elite colleges for little money. The statistics of race of students in those programs were also interesting to look because they were very two races heavy.( http://www.abetterchance.org/abetterchance.aspx?pgID=970)


-Juwon

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