Both these articles detailed the cycle that public institutions endure in their respective cities of Detroit and New York. I have always heard that Detroit is currently a failing city, and I have never understood the cause of the city’s… Continue Reading →
When I was reading Jelani Cobb’s article Class Notes I couldn’t help but think of my cousin. Christina works in a school in Sunset Park, and the demographic of the school is almost entirely students that need more help than they are… Continue Reading →
“The New York City Department of Education had announced the closure [of Jamaica High School]… citing persistent violence and a graduation rate of around fifty percent. Accordingly, the department had begun to ‘co-locate’ four newly created ‘small schools’ in the… Continue Reading →
As an immigrant that just moved here two years ago, as someone who has an outsider’s perspective, I feel that the articles have been very revealing about some of the problematic ways that our public offices operate in response to… Continue Reading →
Jelani Cobb’s Class Notes was a very insightful read for me because as a girl born and raised in Brooklyn, I’ve only gone to Queens only a handful of times in my life and I didn’t know much about what… Continue Reading →
Jelani Cobb’s article Class Notes, resonated with me in a very strange way that is close to home. Even though I have never enrolled in public school until now, I deeply understand the feeling of what happens when schools you’ve grown… Continue Reading →
While one article started off about the closing down of a high school and another about a black middle-class family adjusting to a radically new neighborhood, they both spoke to how a society struggled to carry the weight of its… Continue Reading →
What Sugrue’s article, “The Rise and Fall of Detroit’s Middle Class” lacks in length, it more than makes up for in content. Short articles are the easiest to read and can be the easiest to forget. However, the personal example… Continue Reading →
Jelani Cobb’s piece about the closure of Jamaica High School hit home for me in so many different ways that I’m not even sure where to begin, especially as the issue at hand is something that directly affected me. I… Continue Reading →
“The Rise and Fall of Detroit’s Middle Class” by Thomas J. Sugrue illustrated the important role government jobs played in supporting Detroit’s African American population as it ascended into the middle class. I found this surprising, simply because when one… Continue Reading →
After reading both of the articles, I gained a greater sense of the cyclical nature of large communities, and found it to be familiar to the economic/business cycle. Both Detroit and Jamaica enjoyed booming times initially, but the state of… Continue Reading →
“…A graduating class of two dozen.” That was extremely hard to believe and put into perspective. Their graduating class was smaller than the size of a typical classroom. The article, Class Notes, written by Jelani Cobb was moving and evoked… Continue Reading →
I think a big aspect that ultimately caused the rise and fall of Detroit was its population decline. Although Detroit was one of the biggest cities in the early 20th Century with a booming automobile industry, I think the biggest… Continue Reading →
Jelani Cobb’s Class Notes reminds me of The Last Week Tonight segment where I was first informed that NYC had the most segregated schools in the country. As New Yonkers, we think segregation mainly exists in stereotypically less racially accepting… Continue Reading →
I thought Jelani Cobb’s piece about the shutdown of Jamaica High School was a very pleasant and informative read. Having lived in Queens for about five years, I’ve been consistently fed the idea that Jamaica is a poor, disgusting, and… Continue Reading →
The accounts presented by Jelani Cobb in The Life and Death are truly insightful, especially concerning an institution that I have personally dealt with in my years on high school sports team. I remember traveling to Jamaica High School and compete… Continue Reading →
When I think about New York City, my mind right off the bat thinks of Times Square, tourism, and diversity. The New York that I know is not the New York that my parents knew. This discrepancy is not only… Continue Reading →
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