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Dr. Clarence Lang, PhD

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Dr. Clarence Lang, PhD is an Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at The University of Kansas. He is the author of Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75 (Class : Culture) (University of Michigan Press), and co-editor with Robbie Lieberman of Anticommunism and the African American Freedom Movement: "Another Side of the Story" (Contemporary Black History) (Palgrave). Click here to contact Dr. Lang.

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The Latest Adventures of the Black “Underclass”

By Dr. Clarence Lang, PhD Guest Commentator

Republican presidential hopefuls Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have burnished their conservative credentials through racially coded invective evoking the dependency of the black �underclass� on government handouts.� Late last year, Gingrich caused a commotion when he referred to child labor laws as �truly stupid.�� He mused that poor children could develop the honest work ethic…

Republican presidential hopefuls Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have burnished their conservative credentials through racially coded invective evoking the dependency of the black �underclass� on government…

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