How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
After three years at our junior high school, in a ghetto neighborhood that included many Asians, Blacks, Mexicans, and other white migrants from the south, we had ended up close to being social equals. (2.21.2)
This is kind of like that Hawaiian sugar cane plantation Papa first steps on to when he arrives in America—the Cabrillo Housing Project may be a terrible place to live in many ways, but it offers Jeanne a place where kids of different races and ethnicities can come together despite their cultural differences. They're all "social equals" because they're all poor. Class becomes the thing that unites them more.