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One vivid starting point in thinking about what eventually was conceptualized as Poor Chic, and more broadly, the consumption of inequality in popular consumer culture was watching a Bill Moyers interview with Mexican intellectual, cultural critic Richard Rodriguez.3 Rodriguez has degrees from Stanford, Columbia, and Berkeley and also was a Fulbright scholar. He is a man of especial esteem and a media celebrity as well. These incremental advantages seemed to outweigh and minimize his minority Latino status, a distinction that is pertinent to the discussion that follows, at least in understanding his expressed view as highly assimilationist. In any event, it was the “American Story” he conveyed that was most provocative.
Through you I drain the pent-up rivers of myself, / In you I wrap a thousand onward years; / On you I graft the grafts of the best-beloved of me and America.1
You see where I’m standin’. That’s where I’m from … Yah, you name it, and I been there. I got a little bit of everywhere in me.2
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Halnon, K.B. (2013). Conclusion Tourists, Victims, and Deadening Others. In: The Consumption of Inequality. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137352491_10
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