Urban Indian Personality and the "Culture of Poverty".

Graves, Theodore D.

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ERIC Number: EJ098355

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Publication Date: 1974

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Urban Indian Personality and the "Culture of Poverty"

Graves, Theodore D.

American Ethnologist, 1, 1, 65-86, Feb 74

"Culture of poverty" theorists contend that the marginal socioeconomic position occupied by many minority groups is the result of a self-perpetuating poverty "way of life". This study brings empirical evidence to bear on this thesis as it applies to Navajo Indians in Denver, Colorado. (KM)

Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Economically Disadvantaged, Identification (Psychology), Life Style, Minority Groups, Nonreservation American Indians, Poverty, Role Theory, Urban Culture

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