...report, "except when despair makes it erupt explosively onto Page One or the 7 o'clock news. Behind its crumbling walls lives a large group of people who...imagined. They are the unreachables: the American underclass." The Time article pointed out that the concept of "underclass," first used in "class-ridden...

...1970s, Time magazine ran a cover story introducing the term 'underclass' to a broad national audience: 'Behind [the ghetto's] crumbling walls lives a large...imagined. They are the unreachables: the American underclass' (Wilson 1988: 50). The Time magazine story was only the first of many articles describing...

...underclass." 17Katz cites Time magazine's cover story of August 19, 1977, "The American Underclass": Behind [the ghetto's] crumbling walls lives a large...imagined. They are the unreachables: the American underclass... Their bleak environment nurtures values that are often at odds with those of the majority...

...story. "The American Underclass." In a now familiar vocabulary, the article states that "behind tthe ghetto's) crumbling walls lives a large group of people...They are the unreachables: the American underclass."3 ' The author identifies this group as set apart from mainstream society: Their bleak environment nurtures...

...Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1860-1935 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991). more intractable, more socially alien and more hostile...imagined. They are the unreachables: the American underclass. ... Their bleak environment nurtures values that are often at odds with those of the majority—even...

...gauntlet in a 1977 cover story, Minority within a Minority: The Underclass: "[The underclass is] a group of people who are more intractable, more socially...and more hostile than almost anyone had imagined." The structure of Time's narrative followed the historical obfuscations laid bare in Katz's work, with...

...these provide contradictory expressions of particular parts of American cities? Behind [the gheno's] crumbling walls lives a large group of people who...imagined, They are the unreachables: the American underclass. (cover from Time magazine in the 1970s. quoted in Weir, 1993. p. 100) Ghenos. as intrinsic...

...and self-respect, equipped with a client mentality, degraded and dependent. As Time Magazine put it, 'Behind the [ghetto's] crumbling walls lives a large...alien and more hostile than almost anyone had imagined . . . Their bleak environment nurtures values that are often at odds with those of the majority - even...

...representations of 'urban crisis' which focused on riots, disorder and decay in African-American urban centres. In March 1968 the Kerner Commission, reporting on...implicitly responsible for its members' separation and immiseration - they are not only alien, but intractably so, rendering themselves unreachable. There...

...most of whose members were young and from ethnic minority groups (see also Devine and Wright. 1993). Behind the [ghetto's] crumbling walls lives a large...imagined. They are the unreachables: the American underclass . . . Their bleak environment nurtures values that are often at odds with those of the majority...