Word: underclasses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Team depth is a lot like fire, it can be your best friend or your worst enemy. Going into the final weekend the Crimson has four solid underclass forwards (Carter, Condakes, junior Arturo Llopis and Rullman) vying for playing time...
Despite the spare plot, Sweetback has a lot to say. Under a veneer of sex and violence, Van Peebles is telling the story of an alienated Black underclass...
Still, Harvard did play well. Stickles and the rest of her underclass defensive corps (sophomore Francie Walton and freshman Diana Clark, Winkie Mleczko and Villiotte) were sharp. The offense was also quite active, forcing Presbrey to make 31 saves on the night. Senior Jen Minkus was aggressive as usual while the trio of Simonds, Whyte and sophomore Joey Alissi created many opportunities...
...highly publicized success of Asian Americans, 29 culturally distinct groups that are sometimes classified by California demographers as white, is being used by the media and some members of the policy elite to embarrass African Americans. Some Asian Americans have documented the existence of an Asian-American "underclass" (people engaged in socially deviant behavior or living below the poverty line, or both). But such findings have not dented the widespread impression that these groups are "model" minorities. Blacks are seen as less hardworking and less deserving than members of model minorities -- although 90% of them hold jobs and their West...
Even the radical, gang-inspired fashion undercurrent of the underclass urban scene (Blue for Crips, red for Bloods, black and silver for everyone--Go Raiders!) percolates up into the middle class. Slumming has always been popular, but even it has been Gapified--reduced to the X hat and the Michael Jordan T-shirt. Gapification is a great neutralizer, stripping violence and excitement from the urban scene...