Word: underclasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approach to the question of Black dispossession, it tended to ignore "the growing class divisions within the black community." He also argued that the Black bourgeoisie was inclined to use "racial myths" in an ideological manner to achieve racial entitlements from the society at the expense of the Black underclass...
This racial approach, Mr. Gershman concluded, "has benefited those (blacks) least in need and has perpetuated the dependency of the (black) underclass." Because of this failure, the Black leadership has lost "credibility in the eyes of many Americans...
...Clark, argued that the condition of the black underclass springs primarily from continued racial oppression of white America. While he is cognizant of the fact that "broad urban economic forces...do affect the status of blacks," Mr. Clark believes that a new form of sophisticated racism which is practiced by Northern whites, has impeded the progress of Blacks...
Both Mr. Clark and Mr. Gershman attack the "black middle-class leadership" for their inability to define the issue of Black dispossession in a clear and satisfactory manner and agree on the fact that the presence of a Black underclass bears ominous potentials for American democracy...
...that Melvin and that Howard is advised herewith that this movie will not help: the film makes no claims about Melvin's tale one way or the other. But anyone looking for the poetic truth about Dummar, and most especially about the sweetly dreaming life of the American underclass that produces characters like him, is advised to see this movie, which is just about as good as American films get: sly and funny and, in the end, terribly touching...