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“Savannah, come on!” Erick says to me. I clear my throat and the classroom is suddenly quiet. My peers wait for me to continue my argument with Erick about Shelby Wilson Stevens’ lame-ass theories of why people end up in a never-ending cycle of poverty. As usual, I am in conflict with Erick, the token privileged white boy from Weston, Massachusetts, attending a community college filled with working class people. You do the math.
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Harper, A.B. (2014). Chapter Four. In: Scars. Social Fictions Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-761-2_5
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