Date of Award
Spring 5-2012
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Major
Anthropology
First Advisor
Jane Nadel-Klein
Second Advisor
James Trostle
Recommended Citation
Schuster, Ariel, "Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors? An Investigation and Analysis of the Nature of the Trinity College and Surrounding Neighborhoods Relationship as Seen Through Gates". Senior Theses, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 2012.
Trinity College Digital Repository, https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/theses/273
Included in
Civic and Community Engagement Commons, Community-Based Research Commons, Inequality and Stratification Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons, Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons, Social Psychology and Interaction Commons, Urban Studies Commons, Urban Studies and Planning Commons
Comments
In this study I explore what takes place inside, outside, and between the gates surrounding Trinity College; the black, the white, and most importantly the gray areas where questions may have been raised, but have failed to be answered. The College and the Community are irrevocably intwined with one another, yet there are forces that keep them apart, and have kept the two from truly interacting for decades. Like the links in a fence, many aspects come together to create an urban climate, and the fence, be it physical or imaginary, that surround Trinity College play an integral role in manifesting the overwhelming tension and social divisions that exist between the neighborhood communities and the College community in Hartford.