Author Bell Hook explores the issue of the problematic attitude towards poverty in the United States. In her expert “Seeing and Making Culture,” she includes to her readers about how society distinguishes social classes into: working folk, who are poor but making ends me, those working but making extra money and the rich. With the same theme in “The Land of Opportunity,” James Lowen lets his reader see that we live in a class system that privileges some people and raise barriers for others. These pieces illustrate the high epidemic of misunderstanding are different social classes.
In Hooks writing, she discusses how we are raised to think in the terms of the have and haves not, rather in the terms or class. She states “the representation of
In Hooks writing, she discusses how we are raised to think in the terms of the have and haves not, rather in the terms or class. She states “the representation of