Bruce’s Beach Lesson
In this lesson, we engage participants in a modeling problem-solving task in relation to Bruce's Beach, a Manhattan Beach (LA area) property that was taken from the Bruce family through eminent domain nearly 100 years ago. We use this real situation to understand the loss of wealth to the Bruce family and prompt a discussion about intergenerational wealth and the current disparities between white and non-white families in America today.
Lesson Plan
Resources
To Learn More about: Intergenerational Wealth: What Matters and Why? (scroll down the page to find the Intergenerational Wealth information)
Why Bruce’s Beach might be an Outlier in terms of Reparations for Black Americans
“How I Can Offer Reparations in Direct Proportion to My White Privilege”
“What America owes: How reparations would look and who would pay”
“How Could the United States Pay for Reparations?”
Connecticut Data Collaborative: Population Data by Race by Town
