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Applying the social control paradigm to people of color, this text uses a racism-centered perspective of social welfare policy analysis to examine how such policies have regulated the lives of people of color and then employs a strengths-based approach to describe how they have refused to go along with the oppressive features of these policies. It illuminates the need for culturally competent social welfare policy practitioners, illustrating how racism continues to be at the center of many contemporary social problems such as issues of employment, public and bilingual education, housing and residential patterns, citizens' rights, and affirmative action—and of the social welfare policies used to address these issues.
This book is an ideal core or supplementary text for Social Policy courses in departments of social work or human services. It is also a must-read for social welfare policy advocates and analysts and for anyone interested in how the themes of social welfare policy regulation and resistance are relevant to people of color.
Racial Control and Resistance Among African Americans in the Aftermath of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996
Racial Control and Resistance Among African Americans in the Aftermath of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996
Introduction
Racial control and resistance have been recurring themes in American society, and African Americans often have been at the center of these events. Since their importation as slaves, African Americans have been regulated by many types of social welfare policies, slavery being the primary example. However, the themes of racial regulation found in slavery have persisted and continue to shape contemporary social welfare policy debates and development. The Personal Responsibility Act of 1996 is one example of how this form of racial regulation continues, but its regulatory features have also ...
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