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1 Holiday or Work? Thanksgiving and Social Class

2 How is Thanksgiving experienced differently by the lower, middle, and upper classes? Try to give examples beyond those examples pointed out by the author.

3 Is Thanksgiving a day or a four-day weekend holiday? Explain.

4 Retail workers earn poverty level wages.. Is working on Thanksgiving really a choice for retail workers? Are they really volunteering to work? Why or why not?

5 The author does not address how Thanksgiving is experienced differently depending on our race or gender. Knowing that race and gender intersect with class, how do you think Thanksgiving is raced or classed?

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