June A. Douglas is Associate Professor and Chair of Humanities and Social Science in the School of Arts and Science at St. George´s University, Grenada.
This book centres the voices of a group of marginalized residents in Grenada´s ghetto to examine questions of poverty and survival and how, within this context, residents are able to focus on improvement and equity for their children through education.
As a developing nation in the Caribbean influenced by both its British colonial past and its proximity to the United States, Grenada is still rife with poverty, and access to quality education is limited. The author examines this tradition of the ghetto as the centre of community and a force for positivity among youth, and develops a theory of education and deficit poverty through examples of citizens living in a developing state. Using functionalism, life course and other systems theories, the book examines how institutions can support communities, and, in contrast, how families in poverty support themselves in the wake of system failure, to the extent that some children become successful university graduates, entrepreneurs, and world travellers.
A cutting analysis of the development of equity through education in states left behind by colonialism and globalisation, this book offers new understandings of survival and criminality caused by deficit poverty. It will appeal to scholars, faculty, and researchers with interests in international education, education and globalisation, small island states, life course theory, systems theory, and anthropology.
1. Voices from the Ghetto -purpose & impact 2. Why Educate? 3. Hunger, Pain and Humiliation 4. Chapter 4. Adulthood Age 8 - Growing up Too Young 5. Between the Ghetto and a Dark Place -Entrepreneurs 6. Chapter 6. Books, Shoes & Drugs – An Economy of Sharing 7. Beaten into Education- Deportation and the Socialisation of the Ghetto 8. Backyard Politics and Survival 9. Jail, Correction & Redemption 10. From Ghetto to University 11. Grade School Gangster 12. Conclusion - Policy, Planning, & Progression
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June A. Douglas is Associate Professor and Chair of Humanities and Social Science in the School of Arts and Science at St. George's University, Grenada.
