Editing Underclass (section)

==Journalism==
Social scientists often point to journalism as a primary institution conceptualizing the underclass for a mass audience. Many suggest that the underclass terminology employed by American journalists in the last quarter of the twentieth-century were partial to behavioral and cultural—as opposed to a structural—definitions of the underclass.<ref name="Gans" /><ref>{{cite book|last=Gans|first=Herbert|title=The War Against the Poor: The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy|url=https://archive.org/details/waragainstpoor00gans|url-access=registration|year=1995|publisher=BasicBooks|location=New York, NY|isbn=0-465-01991-9}}</ref><ref name="outcasts" />

While journalists' use of the underclass term is vast, a few popular sources are frequently cited in the academic literature on the underclass and journalism. [[Ken Auletta]] employed the underclass term in three articles published in [[The New Yorker]] in 1981, and in book form a year later.<ref name="Underclass">{{cite book|last=Auletta|first=Ken|title=The Underclass|url=https://archive.org/details/underclass00aule|url-access=registration|year=1982|publisher=Random House|location=New York, NY|isbn=0-87951-929-0|pages=28;46}}</ref> Auletta is arguably the most read journalist of the underclass and many of his ideas, including his definition of the underclass, are included in this Wikipedia entry.

Another notable journalist is [[Nicholas Lemann]] who published a handful of articles on the underclass in the ''[[Atlantic Monthly]]'' during the late 1980s and early 1990s. His 1986 writings on "The Origins of the Underclass" argue that the underclass was created by two migrations, the [[Second Great Migration (African American)|great migration]] of Southern blacks to the North and West during the early to mid twentieth century and the exodus of middle class blacks out of the ghetto during the 1970s through the early 90s.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lemann|first=Nicholas|title=The Origins of the Underclass, June 1986|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/past/politics/poverty/origin1.htm|publisher=The Atlantic Online|access-date=28 November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Lemann|first=Nicholas|title=The Origins of the Underclass, July 1986|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/past/politics/poverty/origin2.htm|publisher=The Atlantic Online|access-date=28 November 2011}}</ref>  In 1991 Lemann also published an article titled "The Other Underclass", which details Puerto Ricans, and particularly Puerto Ricans residing in South Bronx, as members of the urban underclass in the US.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lemann|first=Nicholas|title=The Other Underclass, December 1991|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/past/politics/poverty/othrund.htm|publisher=The Atlantic Online|access-date=28 November 2011}}</ref>