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Who Counts as Poor (and who gets to talk about it)

September 27, 2012 by Lita Kurth 3 Comments

I had a bizarre and frustrating experience recently talking to an agent at a writing conference. My main interest was to pitch a novel, but when she said she wasn’t looking for fiction, I threw out a few nonfiction ideas, among them a book on what people don’t know about poverty. “What qualifies you to […]

Filed Under: Class in the Media, Class in The News, Classism, Classism in Everyday Life, Cultural capital, Poverty Tagged With: Barbara Ehrenreich, budget cuts, community colleges, homeless shelters, illiteracy intelligence book-learning, Katherine Boo, poverty, privilege, progressive journalism, speaking up, writing for change

Visioning Our Way to Justice

December 13, 2010 by Linda Stout 1 Comment

I grew up in poverty, the daughter of a tenant farmer. I thought people were privileged if they lived in a house, had running water or even an outhouse. My family of five lived in a ten-by-forty foot trailer. I knew that there were farm owners who lived in large houses, but they worked almost […]

Filed Under: A World Without Classism, Classism among Kids, Classism in K-12 Education Tagged With: classism, community organizing, illiteracy intelligence book-learning, kids

Illiterate in 3 languages

October 27, 2010 by S.M. Miller 2 Comments

At a meeting in Amman, Jordan, high-powered social policy analysts from many nations were deploring the limited intelligence of illiterates and the effects on their offspring; I rushed to defend illiterates. Then, I suddenly realized that my mother had been an illiterate. Indeed, I quickly recognized that Mom was illiterate in three languages. But she […]

Filed Under: Classism in Everyday Life Tagged With: illiteracy intelligence book-learning

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