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Self-reliance is central to America's mythology. But what if this ideal holds us back—as well as being false, classist, corrosive and even sick-making? Join Alissa Quart, author of Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream and executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, in conversation with Emi Nietfeld, author of Acceptance and a former foster youth turned Harvard grad, as they challenge our country's sanctified virtue of "grit." They will also re-imagine this self-sufficient American Dream, laying out an alternative which centers around mutuality and participation.