Sentences with phrase «black underclass»

Host institution Brown University has historical connections to the Trans - Atlantic slave trade and represents the intellectual and material wealth of a nation that was built on the forced labor of a Black underclass.

It isn't aspirational, but neither does it ratify stereotypes about the black underclass.

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The moral case is focused on the plight of the disadvantaged, especially the urban underclass, mainly black and Latino, in our larger cities.

The overwhelming majority of Hispanics have been condemned, along with the majority of blacks, to be the permanent underclass of North American society.

For instance, says Kaus, Loury wants blacks to accept responsibility for their lives as individuals and not as members of a racial tribe, while he at the same time calls on middle - class blacks to act as though they are responsible for the tribe, especially those members of the tribe who are in the urban underclass.

Obviously, the idea that racial discrimination is the sole cause of the predicament of the black working poor and underclass is specious.

The new black conservatives have had their most salutary effect on public discourse by highlighting the breakdown of the moral fabric in the country and especially in black working poor and underclass communities.

The crisis of black liberalism and the emergence of the new black conservatives can best be understood in light of three fundamental events in American society and culture since 1973: the eclipse of U.S. economic and military predominance in the world; the structural transformation of the American economy; and the moral breakdown of communities throughout the country, especially among the black working poor and underclass.

I suspected when I first heard this claim that the Committee on the Status of Black Americans, loaded as it was with social scientists, had demolished a straw man, a bloodless construct so rigidly defined as to be meaningless in terms of the actual lives of the humans who inhabit the nation's ghettos and who, for the most part, make up what has come to be called the underclass.

Not only are more people classified as «poor» than ever before, but the underclass, composed largely of blacks and Hispanics, is locked into an intergenerational pattern of «dependency» that makes it almost certain that millions of people will never become self - supporting and law - abiding citizens.

The first is an underclass of the pre-affluent consisting of blacks and other racial minorities, the poor, and others at the margins of the socio - economic order.

D'Souza's conclusion is that there are three possible explanations for the sad state of so many black Americans, especially the millions in the urban underclass.

In essence, legal but unethical and racist practices kept millions of Black people in a permanent underclass.

Made at bus stops throughout the city, the large - scale black and white photographs capture the isolation of the urban metropolis through formally composed and carefully detailed views of desolate boulevards disappearing into the horizon, peopled only by the Los Angeles underclass waiting for the next bus.