"Even when people in this group knew they weren’t the best off, what kept them from feeling that they were at the very bottom was the color of their skin."
In our magazine, a thought-provoking and disturbing look at the effect of #poverty on the growth of #racism in small-town America in this excerpt from Forgotten Girls: A Memoir about Friendship and Lost Promise in America: https://www.texasobserver.org/white-people-rural-arkansas-recession-forgotten-girls/
#culture #books #politics #USpol #economy #inequality
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