Week 13 -

  White Christian Maleness as Identity: Experiences and Responses Required Readings: Kidd, K. (2013). What white poverty really looks like in America. Retrieved from: https://mic.com/articles/59829/what-white-poverty-really-looks-like-in-america#.Nghi9TsPp (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. McGillias, A. (2016). The original underclass: Poor white American’s shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has. Retrieved from: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/09/the-original-underclass/492731/ (Links to an external site.) Please respond to the questions below. Once you have responded, please critically respond (ask questions, challenge, etc.etc.) to three of your colleague's post in order to receive full credit for this session. 1) In the article, The Original Underclass what do the authors mean when they say"Poor white Americans’ current crisis shouldn’t have caught the rest of the country as off guard as it has" 2) Identify some of the structural oppressive factors that contribute to this their current predicament? 3) Are there similarities with the treatment of this group as with the others discussed during the semester? 4) What does White Poverty really look like? 5) In what ways can social workers provide social justice to this group?