Readings

• Annette Laureau. 2012. Unequal Childhoods. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press (Chapter 3).
• Malcolm Gladwell. 2011. Outliers: The Story of Success. NY: Little, Brown and Company (chapter 1, ‘The Matthew Effect‘). 
• Anupam B. Jena, Michael Barnett and Timothy J. Layton. 2018. The link between August birthdays and A.D.H.D. Nov 28, New York Times.
• Clark Merrefield. 2020. The 2021 Tulsa race massacre and its enduring fallout. June 18, Harvard Gazette. 

Lecture pages

• Class discussion outline
• Theories on Culture of poverty, the underclass
• Is rural poverty different?
• Systems of privilege