Phrases with «urban underclass»

The phrase "urban underclass" refers to a disadvantaged group of people living in cities who face economic hardship, social exclusion, and lack opportunities. They often struggle with poverty, unemployment, and limited access to education or resources. Full definition

Sentences with «urban underclass»

  • It is as though those shaping the domestic agenda of the government do not see the explicitly racial character of this problem, as if they do not understand the historical experiences that link, symbolically and sociologically, the current urban underclass to our long, painful legacy of racial trauma. (firstthings.com)
  • From this perspective the tragedy of the urban underclass is a civil rights problem, curable by civil rights methods. (firstthings.com)
  • There is no way to minimize the social pathologies that afflict the urban underclass, just as it can not be denied that vast new opportunities have opened for blacks to enter into the mainstream of American life. (firstthings.com)
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