I always appreciate your thoughtful movie reviews.
I shared your mystification re the Mason parents’ disconnection from the community they served. It’s a common pattern. Retail in poor communities can be the gateway for recent immigrants’ ascent to the middle class. This may in part be thanks to access to community capital through mutual aid. The result is more than a century of tension between poor African-Americans and the “outsider” shopkeepers — Italian, Jewish, East and South Asian, Arab.
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Date: 2020-05-30 08:19 pm (UTC)I shared your mystification re the Mason parents’ disconnection from the community they served. It’s a common pattern. Retail in poor communities can be the gateway for recent immigrants’ ascent to the middle class. This may in part be thanks to access to community capital through mutual aid. The result is more than a century of tension between poor African-Americans and the “outsider” shopkeepers — Italian, Jewish, East and South Asian, Arab.