The Origins of the Underclass. Part I.

Lemann, Nicholas

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Publication Date: 1986

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The Origins of the Underclass. Part I.

Lemann, Nicholas

The Atlantic, v257 n6 p31-55 Jun 1986

The urban Black underclass can be traced to the sharecropper South of a generation ago. The propagation of underclass culture has been hastened by an exodus of working class Blacks from the ghettos. Interviews with urban and rural Blacks help identify the problems of the underclass. (Author)

Descriptors: Blacks, Ghettos, Poverty, Rural to Urban Migration, Social Problems, Sociocultural Patterns, Urban Culture, Urban Environment, Urban Problems, Urban to Suburban Migration

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Illinois (Chicago); Mississippi

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