“The problem is everyone, even Black people, believes that Black poverty is the worst poverty in the world, and Black urban poverty, forget it, and all urban Blackness always scans as poverty, which means people only love us as fetish. No one is sentimental about poor Black people unless they're wise and country and you could put a photograph of them on a porch with a quilt behind them in a museum.” RacePovertyRacismAfrican AmericansBlacksRace RelationsUrban LifeUrban PovertyBlack Poverty Book:The Office of Historical Corrections Source: The Office of Historical Corrections
“Marco would much rather wait, buy his mother a lovely house and then bring Isabela to visit, allowing his poverty to take on a romantic tinge, something from the past, roots safely buried.” SacrificeNostalgiaLiterary FictionPoignantPuerto Rico1920sDouble LifeAmbition Vs PrincipleUrban PovertyHistorical Upheaval Book:A Delicate Marriage Source: A Delicate Marriage