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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"White Poverty"”.
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Between the norm and a hard place: representing marginality in Harmony Korine's Gummo
… new approach to cinematic representations of white poverty in the United States. While U.S. cinema has often furnished us with representations of poverty, the majority of these ï¬ lms have tended to focus on characters' economic hardships. By contrast, Gummo is almost unique in privileging the …
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White Students in Urban Schools: The Unheard Voice in the Achievement Gap
This study analyzes the academic performance of White students in urban settings, relative to Minority peers, and investigates structural variables that might exacerbate or attenuate differences. The investigation is motivated by and extends qualitative work investigating the experiences of middle …