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Practically everyone I know now is from a middle- or upper-middle-class background, and I no longer have the huge chip on my shoulder that I carried around for so many years. I’m not sure it comes out much in the work, but coming from this kind of background is absolutely central to my identity, to my sense of who I am.

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In the 1930s, photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange produced images of sharecroppers and Okies, which drew attention both to the conditions in which these unfortunates found themselves and to their heroic fortitude.

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Once you’ve got through immigration, one is always made to feel very welcome in America, once they’ve let you in. It’s a great place to be.

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April 29, 2024

Once you’ve got through immigration, one is always made to feel very welcome in America, once they’ve let you in. It’s a great place to be.

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April 29, 2024

In the 1930s, photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange produced images of sharecroppers and Okies, which drew attention both to the conditions in which these unfortunates found themselves and to their heroic fortitude.

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