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Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. (External Link)

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What Was Affirmative Action? Jonathan S. Leonard. The American Economic Review , Vol. 76, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the Ninety-Eighth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association. (May, 1986), pp. 359-363.

Culture of poverty

A Behavioral-Economics View of Poverty. Marianne Bertrand; Sendhil Mullainathan; Eldar Shafir. The American Economic Review , Vol. 94, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association San Diego, CA, January 3-5, 2004. (May, 2004), pp. 419-423.

A Partial Test of Oscar Lewis’s Culture of Poverty in Rural America. David B. Miller. Current Anthropology , Vol. 17, No. 4. (Dec., 1976), pp. 720-723.

Alternative Conceptions of Poverty and Their Implications for Income Maintenance. Seymour Spilerman; David Elesh. Social Problems , Vol. 18, No. 3. (Winter, 1971), pp. 358-373.

Another Look at The Truly Disadvantaged. William Julius Wilson. Political Science Quarterly , Vol. 106, No. 4. (Winter, 1991-1992), pp. 639-656.

“Are the Poor Different?” A Comparison of Work Behavior and Attitudes among the Urban Poor and Nonpoor. Chandler Davidson; Charles M. Gaitz. Social Problems , Vol. 22, No. 2. (Dec., 1974), pp. 229-245.

Black Women in Poverty: Some Comments on Female-Headed Families. Rose M. Brewer. Signs , Vol. 13, No. 2. (Winter, 1988), pp. 331-339.

Culture and Poverty in Appalachia: A Theoretical Discussion and Empirical Analysis. Dwight Billings. Social Forces , Vol. 53, No. 2, Special Issue. (Dec., 1974), pp. 315-323.

Ethnicity, Poverty, and Selected Attitudes: A Test of the “Culture of Poverty” Hypothesis. Lola M. Irelan; Oliver C. Moles; Robert M. O’Shea. Social Forces , Vol. 47, No. 4. (Jun., 1969), pp. 405-413.

Family and Social Pathology in the Ghetto. Hyman Rodman. Science , New Series, Vol. 161, No. 3843. (Aug. 23, 1968), pp. 756-762.

Family Stability in the Context of Economic Deprivation. Florence C. Odita; Mary Ann Janssens. The Family Coordinator , Vol. 26, No. 3. (Jul., 1977), pp. 252-258.

Female Headship, Feminization of Poverty and Welfare. Mwangi S. Kimenyi; John Mukum Mbaku. Southern Economic Journal , Vol. 62, No. 1. (Jul., 1995), pp. 44-52.

Immigration: Issues of Ethnicity, Class, and Public Policy in the United States. Robert L. Bach. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science , Vol. 485, From Foreign Workers to Settlers? Transnational Migration and the Emergence of New Minorities. (May, 1986), pp. 139-152.

Misspeaking Truth to Power: A Geographical Perspective on the “Underclass” Fallacy. Mark Alan Hughes. Economic Geography , Vol. 65, No. 3. (Jul., 1989), pp. 187-207.

Patterns of Childhood Poverty: New Challenges for Policy. Karl Ashworth; Martha Hill; Robert Walker. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management , Vol. 13, No. 4. (Autumn, 1994), pp. 658-680.