declassed

“Of many things, but usually of losing their jobs, being declassed, degraded, or actually disgraced; of losing their hopes, their savings, their plans for their children; of the actual pangs of hunger, of dirt, of crime. And of all this, most ubiquitous in modern industrial society is that fear of unemployment.”

“Pygmalion” is a comedy about a woman who becomes declassed.

In fact, it was supposed that among this class of men there were sometimes to be found a Samurai declassed from one cause or another.

As I have shown in a former chapter, a white woman in the North who marries a Negro is declassed—ostracised by both races.

But the white woman who thus marries a Negro is speedily declassed: she is ostracised by the white people, and while she finds a certain place among the Negroes, she is not even readily accepted as a Negro.