Katherine Jensen

Katherine Jensen is a graduate student in the department of sociology at the University of Texas, Austin. She works on racial politics, identity, and citizenship in Latin America.


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Lives at the Urban Margins

“Every great city,” wrote Friedrich Engels, in The Condition of the Working Class in England, “has one or more slums, where the working-class is crowded together. True, poverty often dwells in hidden alleys close to the palaces of the rich; but, in general, a separate territory has been assigned to it, where, removed from the […]