My father has always been interested in economics/money/business issues, and being a black man, has of course dealt with those issues as they intersect with race. So a couple months ago, when I saw that Latoya was reading a book called The Color of Wealth: the story behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide, I knew [...]
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necessarily uncomfortable reading
Posted in books, my life, race, tagged books, money, Native American issues, privilege, race, reading, US history, wealth on May 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
that whole bootstraps thing
Posted in social theory, tagged bootstraps, poverty, privilege on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So there’s this dude. He grad’s from college and decides he’s gonna get himself a book deal. How, you say?
By “abdicating” his middle-class status and “starting over” in Charleston, SC. He lived in a shelter for a time, got a job as a mover [day-laborer], and started working his way out of the (artificial) hole [...]
Class and Privilege – Arguments, Qualifiers, Ownership
Posted in my life, social theory, tagged class, family, my life, privilege, social theory on January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Via My Private Casbah. Though I originally swiped it from a friend and former classmate on LJ.Those that were true when I was in college [now a full ten years ago ::shudder::] are bold. Some things are kind of hard to answer because I never went to high school. Things that seem like [...]
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