James+Reflection+on+Marginalization

Many in America today are much like the Joads: marginalized. Whether they live in their trucks or cars like the Joads did, or whether they live in housing projects or even in golf carts, they are have been cheated of the American Dream. The presence of such "outsiders," many of whom are actually as much a part of America as the rest of us, reminds us of how we exclude others and forbid others from coming in.