Word: underclasses
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...When you're making between $65 and $80 per week, spending $6 on a play and $5 for a concert does become a chore," says Joshua D. Bloodworth '97, a New Yorker who describes himself as halfway between working and middle class. ("I identify with the black underclass, my parents identify with the working class," he explains...
...when, according to Cowles Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson, "the bottom third of the African-American population--some 10 million persons--live in dire poverty," and "the bottom 10 per cent or so--the so-called underclass--exist in an advanced stage of social, economic, and moral disintegration," seizing opportunity, making use of programs like affirmative action for example (as both men admit was part of the reason they made it to the Ivy League as students), is an integral part of success. A Yankelovich Partners, Inc.--New Yorker survey (the results of which were published in the special issue...
Black economist Glenn C. Loury makes a powerful case for the rediscovery of black racial honor. He believes progress toward racial equality depends on acknowledging and rectifying the dysfunctional behaviors in the black community. This is usually taken to mean the underclass must clean up its act before it can move into the mainstream. But there are dysfunctional behaviors outside the ghetto that could also stand re-examination: the white notion that the country has already done enough to secure racial equity, and black middle-class complicity in the deterioration of inner-city schools. In both cases, honor depends...
...undocumented alien children without assuming the costs. Supporters of the bill also charge that free education serves as a magnet attracting illegal immigrants. But Cohen notes that the Supreme Court ruling noted that the public has an interest in schooling children to prevent the creation of an uneducated underclass...
Homosexuality was described as a disease, a mental illness, the most mortal of sins. Its carriers were monsters or, the luckier ones, martyrs. With few exceptions they have been members of the movies' creepiest underclass: the men more feminine than the heroine, foils to make the hero look more masculine; the women as big as truck drivers and miles meaner. And that was on the rare occasions when they were there at all. Mostly, homosexuals have had nonperson status in movies. What a destiny, in movies or in life: to be either reviled or invisible...