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bell hooks

“A shift in class values occurs in black life when integration comes and with it the idea that money is the primary marker of individual success, not how one acquires money. Adopting that worldview changed the dynamics of work in black communities. Black men who could show they had money (no matter how they acquired it) could be among the powerful. It was this thinking that allowed hustlers in black communities to be seen as just as hardworking as their Wall Street counterparts.”

bell hooks, We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
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We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks
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