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Go Back to Where you Came From

The Making of a Mindset

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Feather Boas, Black Hoodies, and John Deere Hats

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I remember the first time that I heard it. I was 15, and we had just moved from a working class city in the Northeast to a small town in the Southeast. “Is it true?” a classmate asked me.

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Harding, K., Jones, J. (2017). Go Back to Where you Came From. In: Jones, J.R. (eds) Feather Boas, Black Hoodies, and John Deere Hats. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-215-2_10

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