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Hood-Adjacent: Place and Class in Black American Life – Areo
“None of my stepbrother’s friends grew up in an impoverished neighbourhood. But our social, familial and cultural bonds to such communities have had real impacts on our lives. … We’ve all experienced the streets; we’ve all been in proximity to violence and could easily have become perpetrators or victims of it,” writes John R. Wood Jr. in this week’s feature.
It would be wonderful to live in a world without labels or stereotypes. But it is impossible to analyse complex widescale social trends without thinking in terms of broad categories…View Post
