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If They’d Told Me We Were Poor, I Would’ve Ignored the White Gaze
If They’d Told Me We Were Poor, I Would’ve Ignored the White Gaze Though her family sometimes received food stamps and occasionally had their utilities cut off, Marcie Alvis Walker’s parents led her to believe that they were an average middle-class Black family. They encouraged her to pursue her dreams and told her that if she worked hard enough, she’d achieve them. The small catch was that Walker’s dream was ...
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