I agree with your depiction of the socio economic description The Wire is making of the situation of the two groups.One is much worse than the other, one group is on the margin of the society and with very little chances for the individuals that are part of it to be ever allowed in , the other is still in it. But the show is also asking the question "for how much longer"? Already we have the white drug dealers. Where do these kids come from? What's their story? Is their situtation so much better than this of the projects kids? Perhaps for now - one of them is reminded he is not black and obviously they are mimicking the drug culture of the projects - but what about their own kids? What does it tell us that their models come from criminal organizations? The show doesn't answer, but opens -I think- all these questions. In other words, with the African American people living in the projects, The Wire focuses on an already long marginalized group (if not for ever)because of racism and the evolutions this marginalization entails; with the people on the docks the series examins different ongoing processes of marginalization due to economic and politic evolutions, processes where ethnicity doesn't matter so much (which doesn't mean not at all). As you'll see the workers on the docks are mixed even though the Wire choose to focus on white characters as leads for this exploration.
Hope this is clear enough and make the nuances of what I want to say appearant because making indepth analysis is not easy when you have to struggle with the language at the same time.
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Date: 2011-07-02 09:40 am (UTC)I agree with your depiction of the socio economic description The Wire is making of the situation of the two groups.One is much worse than the other, one group is on the margin of the society and with very little chances for the individuals that are part of it to be ever allowed in , the other is still in it. But the show is also asking the question "for how much longer"? Already we have the white drug dealers. Where do these kids come from? What's their story? Is their situtation so much better than this of the projects kids? Perhaps for now - one of them is reminded he is not black and obviously they are mimicking the drug culture of the projects - but what about their own kids? What does it tell us that their models come from criminal organizations? The show doesn't answer, but opens -I think- all these questions. In other words, with the African American people living in the projects, The Wire focuses on an already long marginalized group (if not for ever)because of racism and the evolutions this marginalization entails; with the people on the docks the series examins different ongoing processes of marginalization due to economic and politic evolutions, processes where ethnicity doesn't matter so much (which doesn't mean not at all). As you'll see the workers on the docks are mixed even though the Wire choose to focus on white characters as leads for this exploration.
Hope this is clear enough and make the nuances of what I want to say appearant because making indepth analysis is not easy when you have to struggle with the language at the same time.