1st Edition
Equitable Education and Ghettoized Voices A Deficit Ideology of Poverty in The Caribbean
By June A. Douglas
Copyright 2025
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Voices from the Ghetto – Purpose & Impact 2. Why Educate? 3. Hunger, Pain, and Humiliation 4. Adulthood Age 8 - Growing up Too Young 5. Between the Ghetto and a Dark Place -Entrepreneurs 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, and Redemption 10. From Ghetto to University 11. Grade School Gangster 12. Conclusion - Policy, Planning, & Progression
Biography
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.
