In addition to texts such as Patillo???s Black Pickett Fences, Jargowsky???s Poverty and Place, Jackson???s Crabgrass Frontier, Sen???s Development as Freedom, and Ehrenreich???s Nickel and Dimed, we will also assess the geography of opportunity as portrayed in such films as Winter???s Bone, Slumdog Millionarie, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Precious, and Trouble the Water.