Word: underclasses
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...males ages 15 to 24 in the U.S. is not heart disease, not cancer, not any natural cause. It is murder by other blacks. More than 1 out of every 3 blacks who die in that age group is the victim of a homicide. Across America, particularly among the underclass in the nation's urban ghettos, brother is killing brother in a kind of racial fratricide. More than 40% of all the nation's murder victims are black, and 94% of those who commit these murders are black. The 6,000 or so Americans who lost their lives because...
Millions of black Americans have in fact clambered up the ladder to create a stable and growing black middle class. But there are two black Americas. The other is an entrenched underclass stuck at the very bottom of society. It is these blacks, an alarming percentage of them from fragmented families and households headed by women, who appear less capable of economic survival than the tenacious new immigrants...
Like most who came before them, the new immigrants are animated by the belief that America is the land of opportunity, and for many of them it is. Yet for much of the black underclass, America still seems to be the land of opportunity denied. In each case, the perception has often been fulfilled...
...ever since the Shi'ites split off from the dominant Sunni Muslims in the 7th century. Of the world's 750 million Muslims, less than 20% are Shi'ites. Some 42 million of them are in Iran, where they make up 92% of the population. To the long-downtrodden underclass of Shi'ites in Lebanon, some 40% of the population, Khomeini's fundamentalist - revolution was an inspiration to rise up against their perceived oppressors: Western and Arab, Christian and Jewish. "If you develop a psychosis that the whole world is against you," says M. Cherif Bassiouni, professor of international...
Meanwhile, Harvard's transfers continue to believe they are an undergraduate underclass. Below, five students reflect on their decision to come to Harvard in the middle of their college careers...