The Robert Taylor Homes Public Housing Development 1. What were the Robert Taylor Homes? The Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing development completed in 1962 and named for after Robert Taylor who was an African American activist and a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) board member. At one time, it was the largest public housing development in the country, and it was intended to offer decent affordable housing. "This is a great thing for the city. It provides decent housing for fine families
In “Gang Leader for a Day”, racism is used to understand and comprehend the everyday basis in which the people of the Robert Taylor community lived. Sudhir’s exposure into the black community began when he was first introduced the the old black men that would spend their days in the park in which he would run. One of the men, who was often referred to as Old Time, believed
police, or emergency medical services were needed but they would never come to the Robert Taylor neighborhood. Unlike if Sudhir called either one of them to his neighborhood they would come right away. The concept here is they wanted them to kill each other off through black on black crime. Law enforcement did not care about the safety of the residents living in this community. The residents living in Robert Taylor was not a major concern unless it was a drug bust. That is why the Black Kings were
Sudhir wonders at how Ms. Bailey can accept cash payments and other tributes for her “charitable” services, which she does regularly. But her assistant Catrina urges Sudhir to see Ms. Bailey on the whole as a giving, well-intentioned member of the Robert Taylor
community, the variance of power between men and women In the community and whether or not their lifestyles portray a culture of poverty. When you think of home, most of the time thoughts of love, warmth and family come to mind. Although a drab exterior , it is no difference for the thousands of people who reside in the Robert Taylor Homes on the Southside
Gang Leader for a Day written by Sudhir Venkatesh consisted of Sudhir himself studying, observing and partaking in a study for his dissertation on the South Side of Chicago with underprivileged African Americans who are gang affiliated. The methodological and ethical issues that were found in his book reflect potential strengths and weaknesses of his qualitative research. Venkatesh brought to light the dangers and awareness of being associated with the Black Kings gang, there were situations that
Department, Captain Clarke and his team of detectives, Taylor, and Reyes sat around a table in the dimly lit conference room, “Roberts family, butchered in their own home” Clarke says. “Murder suicide?” Taylor suggests. “Not sure, that’s what we have to find out, what do we know so far?” Clarke asks his team. Reyes takes lead walking to the front of the table, gathering the case file and crime scene photos onto the mounted screen. “Roberts family, murdered six days ago. The mother Alison, children
ghettos. It is assumed that inner-city neighbourhoods, which lack formal structures and services, are home to poverty and deviance. However, for Sudhir Venkatesh, author of “Gang Leader for a Day”, a community is what he encounters when observing residents of the largest housing projects in the United States, the Robert Taylor Homes. In poor, racialized neighbourhoods such as the Robert Taylor Homes, there is an idea that there is no social structure in place to provide guidance to young people, who
Sudhir Venkatesh's Gang Leader for a Day provides readers with an in depth understanding of life for the poverty stricken in 1980s Chicago, Illinois. More specifically, Venkatesh's research focuses on African-Americans living in the Robert Taylor public housing units, which were notorious for gang activity and general onslaught of crime. Despite the clear picture Venkatesh is able to exhibit by throwing himself into this alien world, the information he garnered was not acquired without fault. Since
University of Chicago who wanted to assist a professor in a study about young blacks and how their environmental factors influenced their outcomes. To do this he intended to pass out a survey to young blacks in poor neighborhoods, particularly Robert Taylor. However, on his first day, he is confronted by members of the Black Kings who did not allow him to enter the building. Their leader, J.T., laughed at him after reading the survey Sudhir was using and explained that he would not learn anything
continued to be passed down from to generation to generation, until finally reaching me. Vera was born in the small town of Independence, Virginia on May 17, 1898, in the notable setting of her parents’ bath tub. A few years earlier in 1894, her brother Robert L. Wright had
investment, in practice it did not achieve that feat. The article The Beginning of the End of a Modern Ghetto by Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh discusses the racial and class stereotypes that obscured the way Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes functioned. When it opened in November 1962, Robert Taylor Homes, were twenty-eight sixteen-story buildings containing 4,300 units on Chicago's South Side, and was considered the world's largest public housing project. This demonstrated how much space and money was invested
of these black families is by becoming involved in the community. The initial failure of his survey highlights the importance of Venkatesh’s shift from using an etic approach to an emic approach. Venkatesh begins to immerse himself within the Robert Taylor community, using the snowball sampling method. This is evident when Sudhir meets Clarisse, a cousin of J.T. She informs him about the type of people that live in the building, saying that “Regulars like me, we hustle to make our money, but we
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In Venkatesh’s Gang Leader for a Day, he violated many ethical codes when conducting his research in the Robert Taylor Homes. The ASA “Code of Ethics” states that there are four rules “1. To protect research subjects, 2. To maintain honesty and openness, 3. To achieve valid results, 4. To encourage appropriate application”(47 Chambliss & Schutt). Given these four guidelines we can see that Venkatesh’s work is in violation. A few examples are his lack of informed consent, an occurrence of deception
“lily-white suburbs of Southern California” and lived in “a studio apartment in a ten-story building” next to “a beautifully manicured Gothic campus” (Venkatesh 1). Sudhir didn’t struggle through life the same way that the residents of Robert Taylor did. Robert Taylor was composed of I think his background affected the results of the study because Venkatesh had his own opinions and perspectives on certain situations, and reacted differently because of them. For example, when Clarisse tells Sudhir
I agreed with author Robert Eldon Robert that the American Revolution was a conservative movement. First off, Robert Eldon Brown had graduated with a PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin, and with this degree, he then became a professor at Michigan State University where he taught history. Also, another notable piece he wrote was Charles Beard and the Constitution. While reading the article “Was the American Revolution a Conservative Movement?”, the reading piece included an article written
selected based on the outline given in Richardson-Tench, Taylor, Kermode & Roberts (2014, pg 53-54) which aims to assess the question and the topic, the abstract, the methodology, the findings or conclusions and an overall evaluation. It was essential that all articles chosen were peer reviewed. This is a process maintains high standards in research and involves the review of articles by subject matter expert’s (Richardson-Tench, Taylor, Kermode & Roberts 2014, pg 53). The authors of the papers were also
Food safety culture is at a record-breaking high , new and developing dangers to the sustenance supply are being perceived , and customers are eating an ever increasing number of dinners arranged outside of the home (Jespersen , 2012 ) . For food safety to succeed in an organization , the most important element is management commitment (Wilson and Worosz , 2014 ) . Commitment to specific areas is a defining element of a company's culture , particularly orienting and training the employees regardless