The high cost of playing victim. (underclass label for blacks) (On Society) (column)

U.S. News & World Report | October 1, 1990| | Copyright

Op-Ed debates often seem to be the only reliable cure for insomnia, but the Washington Post has just run a fascinating one on use of the term underclass. Herbert Gans, the Columbia University sociologist, wrote that "labeling poor people as underclass is to blame them for their poverty," when the truth is that a "welfare recipient often requires little more than a decent-paying job." The implication in Gans's piece is that all the crime, illegitimacy and pathology of the underclass are simply the unavoidable results of economic deprivation. In reply, Mickey Kaus of the New ...

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