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Analysis Of Imagine A Country By Holly Sklar

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The structure of injustice that is most present in the pieces titled, Imagine a Country by Holly Sklar, and “I am Alena”:Life as a Trans Woman Where Survival Means Living as Christopher by Ed Pilkington was that of institutional classism. Institutional classism can be defined as the intentional or unintentional set of practices and beliefs that assign differential value or discriminate against people based on their socio-economic status. In the excerpts above, institutional classism was displayed through the school system and the healthcare system of the United States. In the piece titled, Imagine a Country by Holly Sklar, Sklar asks the reader to imagine a country with different scenarios that people often associate with being from another country and not the United States. However, we discover by the end of the reading that it is in fact the United States that practices all of these different claims. One example of institutional classism that I had discovered in this excerpt related to the United States school system and how they budget their money between lower-income and upper-income households. I had found it shocking that “Students from lower-income …show more content…

Where farm workers and security guards turn to overwhelmed food banks to help feed their families, and homelessness is rising among working families” (Sklar pp. 329). However, on the opposite side of the spectrum, you see a country in which “93 percent of all the nation’s income growth went to the richest 1 percent” (Sklar pp. 329). This is another example of institutional classism because it demonstrates how the government discriminates against the lower-income households based on their occupations. It seems like there should be more money given to lower-income households so that they could not only live their lives, but also to better

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