Word: underclasses
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...trick here is to win as much sympathy and be as patronizing as possible to underclass friends who have the gall to believe they actually have a lot to do when their heaviest writing assignment is 10-12 pages with no outside reading required...
...ends stated by Schaefer and other concerned officials are indisputably desirable; a smaller underclass, which means less suffering in general and less burden to the state. But using Norplant as a means of social control is at the least questionable and at most conjures up a nightmarish Orwellian scenario...
...apparent impotence of current programs in the face of the face of the problems of the underclass is what makes Norplant's use-- required or with incentives--so tempting. No one who seriously cares about the plight of the poor can assail the short-term logic of resorting to Norplant. But it is based on a false premise: merely reducing the number of children born into poverty or other adverse living conditions does not in itself remove the condition and is thus an overly simplistic method of dealing with the current crisis...
This fall, Rainwater co-taught Sociology 166, "Poverty and the American Underclass," with Visiting Professor of Sociology Christopher Winship, who was once a graduate research assistant with Rainwater at Harvard and will teach the class alone next fall...
...devils, civil rights heroes as Uncle Toms and Jews for sapping "the very lifeblood of the so-called Negroes to maintain the state of Israel" -- his steely charisma beguiled the white media. In Harlem he was something more than a diversion: he was the prophet of the black male underclass. "It was manhood time," says Al Freeman Jr., who played Malcolm in the TV mini-series Roots II and is Elijah Muhammad here...