The Brothers

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The Brothers

• Super in drug trade, father general laborer in
  construction
• Mokey unemployed, father custodian, mother
  part-time in daycare center
• James unemployed, mother nurses aide, father in
  zipper and button factory
• Craig credit collector, mother takes care of
  elderly, father janitor
• Juan autobody, father unemployed
• Mike in post office, mother takes care of
  elderly, uncle blue-collar worker
• Derek in airport, mother assembles computer parts

2
The Hallway Hangers

• Stoney pizza stores and then prison for robbery
• Steve in and out of prison, construction, and
  drug dealing
• Shorty in and out of prison and construction
• Chris cocaine dealer and in and out prison for
  theft
• Boo-Boo car wash, army, medical discharge,
  unemployment
• Slick marines, jail, cocaine dealer,
  construction
• Jinks drug dealer, steady job in warehouse
• Frankie spiritual metamorphosis, unemployed

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MacLeods Proposed Solutions

• Expand public housing
• Schools should
• Acknowledge the barriers to achievement rather
  than touting the achievement ideology
• Provide students with success stories from their
  class background
• Accept students working-class identities
• Be well-funded
• And the curriculum should respond to students
  needs and be academically rigorous