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Katherine Jensen

Katherine Jensen is a graduate student in the department of sociology at the University of Texas, Austin. She works on racial politics, identity, and citizenship in Latin America. icon

Lives at the Urban Margins

By Katherine Jensen & Javier Auyero

“Every great city,” wrote Friedrich Engels, in The Condition of the Working Class in England, “has one or more slums, where the working-class is crowded together. True, poverty often dwells in hidden ...

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