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Blaming the Poor : The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty /

"In 1965, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan--then a high-ranking official in the Department of Labor--sparked a firestorm when he released his report "The Negro Family," which came to be regarded by both supporters and detractors as an indictment of African American culture. Bl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Greenbaum, Susan D. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Research and politics : the culture of poverty knowledge
  • Kinship and family structure : ethnocentric myopia
  • There goes the neighborhood : deconcentration and destruction of public housing
  • Crime, criminals, and tangles of pathology
  • Commercializing the culture of poverty
  • Ending poverty as we know it : and other apparently unreachable goals.