Counter Stories: The identity struggle
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In this installment, Don, Luz, Anthony and Hlee discuss growing up poor, escaping poverty as adults, and what it's like to constantly straddle those different worlds.
We'll hear about how their community's perceptions of them don't always match their own self-image and the values they stand for.
And yet, as a people of color, they still face the same stereotypes and prejudice from whites.
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