PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – Poor women of color often "struggle with poverty and oppression as they raise children who in turn face seemingly overwhelming obstacles." In "Teaching 'Stratified Reproduction' in Practice," Assistant Professor of Anthropology Katherine Mason describes teaching a practicum-based undergraduate seminar she launched with support from Brown's Engaged Scholars Program. 

The course, “Stratified Reproduction: Race, Class and Parenthood,” confronted these struggles and stigmas of poor women. Mason says, "Students in the course read broadly in the anthropological and sociological literature on becoming parents and raising small children in the context of deepening national and global inequalities."

The Engaged Scholars Program aims to "provide opportunities for students to pursue community-driven, reciprocal projects through collaboration between Brown and the people of Rhode Island."