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Peer reviewedAlex-Assensoh, Yvette – Urban Affairs Review, 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…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Antisocial Behavior, Blacks, Crime
