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Torsos City 3 eye characteristics average individual incomes decreased by 20% or more between 1970 and 2005 relative to the Toronto average individual income Neighborhoods comprise about 39% of the city neighborhoods Key issues deterministic-planning a lack of regard for the post-colonial and immigrant experiences of the families that live at that place large concentration of poverty and lives lived amid crowded high-rise buildings and housing projects the constant surveillance and media representations of hysteria perpetuated by the City of Toronto Police, Housing Corporation, and media outlets Defining the Ghetto (A first approach) The 40% criterion an area in which the overall poverty rate in a census tract is greater than 40 percent. The ghetto poor are thence those poor, of any race or ethnic group, who live in such high-poverty census tracts Visits to various cities confirmed that the 40 percent criterion came very impede to identifying areas that looked like ghettos in term s of their housing conditions. Moreover, the areas selected by the 40 percent criterion corresponded closely with the neighborhoods that city officials and local census urea officials considered ghettos Let is consequential to distinguish our definition of ghetto tracts based on a poverty criterion from a definition based on racial composition.Not all majority sullen tracts are ghettos under our definition nor are all ghettos black. Arrows and Bane 1991239-241) Defining the Ghetto (A second Approach) the ghettos of space and group-specific institutions all four major elementary forms of racial domination, namely, categorization, discrimination, segregation and exclusionary violence (Loci Yucatan Urban Outcasts, 1995) the hypertext Is moreover defined by the physical dilapidation, social decay and stunning depopulation that has further led to a collective demutualization and absent comportment of the state (course reading) What researchers find in Torsos inner city Schools?Violen ce and Cultural Complexity This is where the documentary intervenes The film looks into how violence is based on a system of logic of reciprocity (code of honor) and how this logic/dynamic can be interrupted It assumes/demonstrates how former actors of violence (gang leaders) take on a new role as interrupters of violence It lows insights into peoples aspirations and dimensions of everyday life (resilience and where alternatives originate) What needs to be discussed Does the film reproduce an ecology-centered discourse or does it allow for seeing the cultural complexity of violence in a broader perspective? The Interrupters (Documentary) Dir. Steve James Film about violence interrupters in Chicago who use their own personal experience and street credibility to work in the communities (film synopsis) Discuss along with L. Waistcoats article (same context)