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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greenbaum, Susan D. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Moynihan, Daniel P. > (Daniel Patrick), > 1927-2003.
United States. > Department of Labor. > Office of Policy Planning and Research. > Negro family, the case for national action.
Öffentliche Meinung
Schwarze
Armut
Soziale Situation
Social policy.
Race relations.
Public welfare.
Poverty.
African Americans > Public opinion.
African American families > Social conditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Policy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Pauvrete > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs americains > Opinion publique.
Familles noires americaines > Conditions sociales.
Noirs americains pauvres > Conditions sociales.
Public welfare > United States > History.
Poverty > United States > History.
Poor African Americans > Social conditions.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique sociale.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
United States > Social policy.
United States > Race relations > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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