... within the mouths of poor black children in the movies---a style of speech, I sometimes think, that maybe exaggerated by the media to lend a heightened sense ofdifferentness? to children in the ghetto. Children, however, are good at psyching out a stranger; it may be that these children would speak somewhat differently to someone they know better.? (Kozol, 34) I think that what Kozol says ... for them to be living where they live. A fifteen year old girl describes it as feeling hidden. Her sixteen year old half sister says that she believes that if New York City woke up one day and poor...

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