For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affl uence of the few supposes the
indigence of the many.'
c) the criteria that apply for identifying the target group rely on absolute poverty and
indigence lines established at extremely low levels (USD 1 or 2 per day), which tend to hide the real magnitude and severity of destitution and reduce the number of potential beneficiaries;
Leonardo Burgos Espinal, 42, a citizen of the Dominican Republic who was living in the country illegally, will not pay restitution because of
indigence. He has six children ranging in age from 1 to 19 and a sick mother in the Dominican Republic, said his lawyer, John S.
Wu's book shows that Asians--her book focuses mostly on Chinese and Japanese--have traveled a long, hard road in the U.S., facing slurs, housing and job discrimination,
indigence and the persistent feeling that they had to prove their loyalty.
But as Duerfahrd writes of his encounters, a pattern of themes and contexts begins to emerge: the performers are presenting themselves as vagabonds and working, very much like the characters, with the textual
indigence, with the reader, or the onlooker, hip-deep in the aesthetics of poverty and despair.
However, despite the best intentions to support the work of talented practitioners from Iran and the Arab world, the exhibition also promotes the mythical discourse of the personal story, a traditionally anthropologized, benevolent, and humanistic narrative of "other" people and places that masks the postcolonial politics of
indigence inherent to such museological endeavors.
Guilty of
Indigence: The Urban Poor in China, 1900-1953.
Like a one-word refrain or a simple, insistent gesture, the difference between excess and
indigence produces precarious and resonant images.