Myths about Race and the Underclass: Concentrated Poverty and "Underclass" Behaviors.

Alex-Assensoh, Yvette

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Publication Date: 1995

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Myths about Race and the Underclass: Concentrated Poverty and "Underclass" Behaviors.

Alex-Assensoh, Yvette

Urban Affairs Review, v31 n1 p3-19 Sep 1995

Demonstrates that in two areas of concentrated poverty in Columbus (Ohio), so-called underclass behaviors are not associated with race. A study of neighborhood poverty and political participation in those areas is used to show that whites and African Americans exhibit statistically indistinguishable and substantively similar levels of such behaviors. (GR)

Descriptors: Academic Failure, Antisocial Behavior, Blacks, Crime, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Structure, Group Behavior, Neighborhoods, Poverty, Racial Relations, Role Models, Social Behavior, Social Isolation, Social Science Research, Social Status, Unemployment, Urban Areas, Whites

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Ohio (Columbus)

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