Word: underclassã
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...India columnist Shashi Tharoor writes in his scathing piece “Should We Be Proud of Bobby Jindal?” “Many Indians born in America have tended to sympathize with other people of color, identifying their lot with other immigrants, the poor, the underclass?? None of this for Bobby.” The unpleasant truth is that he’s a desi hero for the wrong reasons—lauded not for his beliefs but for his race...
...Haitians and black Dominicans—all those, at least, who cannot afford the requisite bribes—are deemed as such. Says Roxanna Atholz, an international law lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley, “What the Dominican Republic has done is created a permanent underclass??a category of individuals that, in the eyes of the law, don’t exist, have no right to own property, to an education, to healthcare, the right to vote.” It is “by keeping Haitians in a limbo of illegality...
...mobility) moved to the suburbs and then overseas. Pushed into benefit-deprived, unstable service economy jobs, or into chronic un- or underemployment, black workers confined to the bottom of the economic hierarchy became economically unviable as laborers. Herded into the abandoned central cities, this black urban “underclass?? revolted in the mid-1960s against these conditions in a series of urban “riots” across...
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