Welfare, Women, and Race
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2729969 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gwendolyn Mink, Edward D Berkowitz, Edward Berkowitz |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 671 |
| Publication date | 1993-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2713319 |
| OpenAlex | W1004424733 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
JUST TWO MONTHS BEFORE THE RODNEY KING VERDICT SPARKED THE uprising in South Central Los Angeles, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan scolded President Bush and Vice President Quayle for racializing political debate through their frequent incendiary blasts against dependency. Moynihan charged that the Bush administration had seized upon welfare a focus of resentment and a code word for you-know-what. ' Moynihan's scolding went unheeded. In the aftermath of the South Central uprising, President Bush blamed the poverty programs of the 1960s, and Vice President Quayle blamed single mothers for the explosive frustrations of poor, urban communities. The victims and survivors of racism, poverty, and inequality were thus held to account for the social conditions against which some protested and other rampaged. They were held up as examples of the failure of liberal social policies and as examples of what happens when family values decline. The country was thereby reminded that its race problem is a behavioral problem, funded by welfare and poverty programs. Welfare politics has been racially coded since at least the late 1960s
Political science · Race (biology · Sociology · Welfare · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 1997 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |