Black women, cultural images, and social policy / Julia S. Jordan-Zachery.
"Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy offers a critical analysis of the policy-making process. Jordan-Zachery demonstrates how social meanings surrounding the discourses on crime, welfare and family policies produce and reproduce discursive practices that maintain gender and racial hi...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2009.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in North American politics ;
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Table of Contents:
- Perceptions, culture and policy : a racing-gendering perspective
- Mythical illusions : cultural images and black womanhood
- Mammy is a maniac : black women, images and crime
- You better work : "rehabilitation" and welfare policy
- The government's "make a man kit" : family policies
- For us by us : redefining black womanhood.