White Kids: Growing Up With Privilege in a Racially Divided America by Margaret A. Hagerman

Author:Margaret A. Hagerman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, Marriage & Family, Discrimination & Race Relations
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2018-09-04T00:00:00+00:00

I volunteer at an organization that works with churches and synagogues and faith communities. It’s for homeless people. And it’s a program where they bring these homeless families in, and they have to be homeless families with children. And they bring them in, and they basically get them—they take care of the necessities, food, shelter, and then they work on helping this person get into affordable housing. But it’s a really great program, because they don’t just bring people in and throw them into housing and then expect them to figure out how to make it happen. They stay in a church for a week, and at the end of the week, the volunteers, which is what I do, load up all their stuff, and they move to the next church for a week, or synagogue. So that’s their—how their housing is taken care of, their meals are taken care of. And at the same time, the social workers are working with them trying to figure out what their issue is.

Patricia thinks that the homeless people she serves have problems that can be explained at the individual level—that with a little help, they can find permanent housing for themselves and their children. She views herself as having a moral obligation to help the poor and goes on to talk about her actual volunteer work as well as how she involves her children in it:

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