Misspeaking Truth to Power
A Geographical Perspective on the "Underclass" Fallacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4846016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Alan Hughes (0009-0006-1502-2300, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 187 |
| Publication date | 1989-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/143834 |
| OpenAlex | W2320304788 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 79 |
| References cited | 18 |
Underclass has become a defining concept of contemporary research on urban conditions and a pervasive feature of ongoing discussions of urban policy. The literature built around the concept, however, has been characterized by an empiricism that has been unable to withstand culture-of-poverty interpretations and by aspatial analysis that has failed to conceptualize many aspects of the problem. This paper argues that the isolated deprivation of the provides a more meaningful framework for studying contemporary urban problems. It operationalizes this framework using a measurement strategy that helps to identify metropolitan areas with significant neighborhood restructuring and hypothesizes the relation between the emergence of this impacted and structural changes in the economy, in particular, the intermediate outcome of changes played out in the process of metropolitan deconcentration. The results demonstrate the inability of aspatial analysis to account fully for changes in the ghetto during the 1970s
Economic geography · Economics · Epistemology · Fallacy · Geography · Perspective (graphical) · Positive economics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Underclass · Anthropology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Housing Market and Economics · Philosophy · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Urbanization and City Planning
Object lessons in whiteness
Unpopular culture
Disadvantage and New Prosperity in Restructured Belfast
You're Good with your Hands, Why Don't You Become an Auto Mechanic
Ghetto Poverty among Blacks in the 1980s
Job Proximity and the Urban Employment Problem
Locating White Detroit
Underclass
Inner‐city concentrated poverty and neighborhood distress
How Gay Stays White and What Kind of White It Stays
Neighborhood Indicators
The Mirage of an Unmarked Whiteness
“White Devils” Talk Back
(E)racism
White Racial Projects
Turks in the Netherlands
Establishing the Fact of Whiteness
Is China's public housing programme destined to fail? Evidence from the city of Changsha
Fighting Poverty with Mobility
The Impact of Compositional and Redistributive Forces on Poverty Concentration
Fair Share or Status Quo
The “Underclass” Revisited
The Role of Municipal-Level Factors in Neighborhood Economic Change
Rethinking the Recap
Spatial Segregation of the Poor in Southern California
Using Birth Weights to Chart the Spatial Distribution of Urban Poverty
Ecological Analysis of the “Urban Underclass”
Race and Racism
Racialized Identitites and the Formation of Black Gangs in Los Angeles
Formation of the Impacted Ghetto
An Examination of Extreme Urban Poverty
Developing the Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis
Race, Scale, and the Concentration of Poverty in Columbus, Ohio, 1980 to 1990
Juvenile Gun Crime and Social Stress
Urban Economic Structure and the Urban Underclass
Expanding the Neighborhood Effects Model
Economic Restructuring and Black Male Joblessness in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Poverty Area Diffusion
The Link Between Black Teen Pregnancy and Economic Restructuring in Detroit; A Neighborhood Scale Analysis
On poor whites in post-appartheid cities
Transnational Configurations of Desire
Moving from Guilt to Action
“The Souls of White Folks”
Ethnic Segregation in Cities
Migration, Segregation, and the Geographic Concentration of Poverty
Take the Money and Run
Why Does It Take a Village? The Mediation of Neighborhood Effects on Educational Achievement
Poverty Concentration Measures and the Urban Underclass
The Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography Recycling Urban Systems and Metropolitan Areas
Il dibattito sull'underclass
The changing structure, distribution and spatial segregation of the unemployed and economically inactive in Great Britain
Job Proximity and the Urban Employment Problem
The Effect of Economic Restructuring on Family Poverty in the Industrial Heartland, 1970–1990
Income Disparities and Employment and Occupational Changes in New York∗
The Circular Migration of Puerto Rican Women
Neighborhood Development in the Metropolitan Economy
The Effect of Racial and Ethnic Composition on Neighborhood Economic Change
Watching the defectives
The spatial separation of the poor in Canadian cities
Segregation in Urban Space
Employability, Skills Mismatch and Spatial Mismatch in Metropolitan Labour Markets
Neighbourhood Effects and Cultural Exclusion
Was There a Social Transformation of Urban Neighbourhoods in the 1980s? A Decade of Worsening Social Conditions in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Close Together and Worlds Apart
Does the Race of Neighborhood Role Models Matter? Collective Socialization Effects on Educational Achievement
Exploring the Effect of Public Housing on the Concentration of Poverty in Columbus, Ohio
Geographic Concentration of Affluence and Poverty in 100 Metropolitan Areas, 1990
Determinants of Neighborhood Change
The Fortunes of Poor Neighborhoods
Myths about Race and the Underclass
The Disparate Racial Neighborhood Impacts of Metropolitan Economic Restructuring
The Invention of the “Underclass
Idle Thieving Bastards? Scholarly Representations of the 'Underclass
Deconcentration by Demolition
The Disparate Impact of Metropolitan Economic Change
Landscapes of Inequality
Neighborhood Economic Development and Local Working
Deindustrialisation and Dispossession
The decline of male employment in low-income black neighborhoods, 1950-1990
Contemporary suburban America
Poor Support
Housing Segregation, Negro Employment, and Metropolitan Decentralization
Are Non‐race Specific Policies the Key to Resolving the Plight of the Inner‐city Poor
Defining and Measuring the Underdass
Formation of the Impacted Ghetto
Locational Patterns and Dynamics of Industrial Activity in the Modern Metropolis
Industrial Restructuring versus the Cities
Institutional Change and the Challenge of the Underclass
Urban Industrial Transition and the Underclass
The Ethnic Ghetto in the United States
The Postmodern Challenge
The Ghetto Underclass and the Social Transformation of the Inner City
Neighborhood and Politics
Industrialization and Urbanization
Trends in the Residential Segregation of Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians
Industrial Organization and the Logic of Intra-Metropolitan Location
Central Problems in Social Theory
| Unique citing works | 79 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,19 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2023 (34) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 73 |