Labels act as lenses, shaping what we see. As Michel Foucault observed, “The power to classify is the power to control.” The act of naming and classifying populations does more than categorize—it ...
Taxi Driver was one of a number of movies in the 1970s that presented a menacing underclass, unemployed and threatening social stability. (Fifty years ago, America launched a great experiment, ...
"Sponsored by the Committee for Research on the Urban Underclass of the Social Science Research Council." The urban "Underclass" as a metaphor of social transformation / Michael B. Katz -- Southern ...