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Black and Bougie: Why Being Black is Not Synonymous with Being Poor and Uneducated
Within the hierarchical, American class system, Blackness is often synonymized and associated with being “lower class”. That is, being poor, having limited resources, and having little formal education. The subconscious associations are ever-present throughout American society. American marketing and advertising, one of the mainstream methods of communicating with and reproducing the current class hierarchy is…