Beauty College
How do beauty schools cater to lower-income students?
By covering some of the “up-front” costs, such as hair tools and “immediate out-of-pocket expenses” (50).
Do the enrollment officers care about the students?
Up to interpretation; use textual evidence
Cottom uses this literary device to discuss the river of dreams
What is an analogy or metaphor?
Black and hispanic women
What is the majority demographic of beauty schools?
What communication strategies do the technical schools’ enrollment officers use to draw students in?
Code-switching
How does code-switching relate to the river of dreams metaphor?
Some lower-income people and people of color often have to code-switch to gain more opportunities that come easier to higher-income, white people