An article in the NY Times describes how Smith's character, "Chris Gardner, whose efforts to keep his family from sinking into poverty evolve into a life-and-death struggle of social Darwinian proportion [proves] you don't need an army to fight the war on poverty,"[Man06] which speaks volumes about how class can be a matter of survival. ...

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