... This chapter offers an explanation of transclass identity and how it fits into depictions of poverty. The argument is that only people from poverty should create works about poverty. The only way this can happen, given the lack of power among the powerless, is if the agent is a transclass person...

... transclass class reproduction poverty journalism ...

... ideology identity politics exo-writers endo-writers transclass writers ...

... about the poor that weaken the building blocks of future narrations about the economically worse-off. Instead of this approach, transclass writers can “dwell with” rather than simply observe the life of poor people and thus can create a genre that is more accountable to the group being portrayed...