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I think larger censors than underprivilege might be: shame, fear, disenfranchisement, etc.
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I think larger censors than underprivilege might be: shame, fear, disenfranchisement, etc.
Narcissus and Me 2007
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From all this the young person must emerge with a personal identity and a set of values, but can anyone meaningfully identify with an inferior status, with being discriminated against, with being a third-class citizen, with economic underprivilege, with a character where he is expected to be submissive, with a lack of control over his destiny and with uncertainty prevailing over his life all the time?
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OK, but what about the fact that the opposite of underprivilege is not privilege?
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I would ask Cobb: How do we address underprivilege, specifically those sufferers who are disproportionately affected when it comes to access to health-care, high school graduation rates, or incidences of arrest, conviction and longer sentencing, without talking about race?
SplicedFeed 2009
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[t] hey are about policies, and they are about entrenched legacies of privilege and underprivilege.
SplicedFeed 2009
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