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...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...
...esoteric literary theories and Cornel West's philosophical fulminations on race, will be a strong voice in public debates over poverty and racial tension. During Wilson's 24 years at Chicago, his research on how worldwide economic changes combined with the residual effects of discrimination to produce the black underclass has shaped the view of most experts in the field. Now, at 60, he believes he can combat what he considers a disastrous rightward swing in national urban policy better from Harvard than from Chicago, where, he says, "I was feeling a little isolated in the past several years here...
Wilson received national attention and acclaim for his groundbreaking work in The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy, named as one of the 16 best books published in 1987, by The New York Times Book Review, according to the press release...
Wilson received national attention and acclaim for his groundbreaking work in The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, The Underclass, and Public Policy, named as one of the 16 best books published in 1987, by The New York Times Book Review, according to the press release...