South Central Farm to Forever 21?
This just in: Turns out the former site of the South Central Farm – where low-income, indigenous/immigrant Latino farmers grew food in the midst of a toxic industrial area for 14 years before being evicted two summers ago in one of the saddest, most maddening examples of private business interests trumping community and environmental good [...]
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’cause I’ve been collecting these stories for a couple days. Fellow guestblogger Renee hits one out of the park: No More Penis Envy. I think I scared my cats laughing so freakin hard. I am not sure if Nezua is guestblogging this summer but I am sure some of you remember him from last year. [...]
...read moreElitism
I find that this charge, leveled against political candidates and other public figures, is not talking about the kind of elitism that separates a snob from “regular Americans” (you know, the white ones [/sarcasm]). When media figures and others of high stature complain of a figure’s “elitism,” they don’t mean, “He thinks he’s better than [...]
...read moreYour class is in your skin: What are your experiences?
Sweet Machine muses on dermatology. Below the fold, I muse on my own experiences and open the thread for you to discuss yours. (EDIT: This post got fuxxored as I tried to rearrange a couple bits. If you saw it when it was first published, it may be a slightly different version now — my [...]
...read moreBlacks, Latinos, and the precariousness of “middle class”
Today I listened to a segment on Democracy Now! about a new report that’s out from Demos and Brandeis University on the state of the Black and Latino middle class in the United States. The study, entitled “Economic (In)Security: The Experience of the African American and Latino Middle Classes,” finds that three-out-of-four Black and four-out-of-five [...]
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