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The Politics of Disgust: The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen

The Politics of Disgust: The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen

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General Political SciencePoverty & Social WorkSocial Movements

ISBN10: 081473670X
ISBN13: 9780814736708
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Dec 1 2004
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

Winner of the 2006 Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Organized Section Best First Book Award from the American Political Science Association

Winner of the 2006 W.E.B. DuBois Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists

Ange-Marie Hancock argues that longstanding beliefs about poor African American mothers were the foundation for the contentious 1996 welfare reform debate that effectively ended welfare as we know it. By examining the public identity of the so-called welfare queen and its role in hindering democratic deliberation, The Politics of Disgust shows how stereotypes and politically motivated misperceptions about race, class and gender were effectively used to instigate a politics of disgust.

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