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Poverty and identity

The entanglement of economic precarity with how people come to understand themselves and their possibilities—poverty shapes not just material conditions but narrative, dignity, and what feels imaginable. Class position structures access to every other identity category; being poor rewrites the meaning of race, gender, education, and belonging in ways that cannot be separated out.

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