It's not racism, but much of William Julius Wilson's work discusses (*) urban African Americans facing this phenomenon.
The use of unwanted goods and absorption of the cost of social change are among the 13 functions of this concept put forth by Herbert Gans. Oscar Lewis claimed that this phenomenon was a faulty "design for living" as part of his theory that it is caused by culture. The majority of people affected by this phenomenon are women, the result of a trend known as the "feminization" of this concept. It's not racism, but much of William Julius Wilson's work discusses (*) urban African Americans facing this phenomenon. The prevalence of this condition was likened to an "invisible land" in Michael Harrington's The Other America. Barbara Ehrenreich attempted to live like someone in this condition in order to write Nickel and Dimed. For 10 points, the cost of a food budget multiplied by three forms the line for what condition, defined as a lack of money?
The use of unwanted goods and absorption of the cost of social change are among the 13 functions of this concept put forth by Herbert Gans.
poverty [or being poor; anti-prompt on being unemployed]