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Across the campus of an East Coast University, where money walks the corridors like ivy covers the walls, a woman sits on the pavement. To all appearances she is white. Day after day, her garments accented with frost or sweat, she calls to passers-by and gestures toward her cup. ‘Spare change, sir?’ she intones, with a rising inflection that suggests expectation. ‘Ma’am, spare change?’ Always a gendered appeal. In another year and a shorter haircut1 I eddied in the wake of a stream of commuters that channeled out of the subway to flow directly past her post. ‘Spare change, ma’am? Spare change, sir?’ When she got to me, her cadence held. ‘Spare change, sir-ma’am-sir?’ For that gift alone I offered up my coins.
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Zalewski, M. (2006). Survival/Representation. In: de Goede, M. (eds) International Political Economy and Poststructural Politics. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230800892_2
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