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Southern Anthropologist

Abstract

This paper looks at the Michigan lottery and the effects of winning the $6 million prize on an inner city Latino family. [Many] working people in Detroit dream of winning the lottery so they can be rich, quit their jobs in the auto factories and jet set round the world. This essay looks at what really happens when the "Lucky Winners" get rich quick. Working class friends and neighbors exploit the new found wealth of their friends, the lucky winners. The new neighborhood rejects the lucky winners, and as the lucky winners do belong anywhere. The real winner is the state of Michigan only.

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