4 Quotes by Michelle Alexander about classism
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Competing images of the poor as 'deserving' and 'undeserving' became central components of the debate.
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Segregation laws were proposed as part of a deliberate effort to drive a wedge between poor whites and African Americans. These discriminatory barriers were designed to encourage lower-class whites to retain a sense of superiority over blacks, making it far less likely that they would sustain interracial political alliances aimed at toppling the white elite.
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the planter class extended special privileges to poor whites in an effort to drive a wedge between them and black slaves
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At the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, activists and others began to turn their attention to economic problems...The shift in focus served to align the goals of the Civil Rights Movement with key political goals of poor and working-class whites, who were also demanding economic reforms
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