Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-415-88470-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in North American Politics

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 hierarchies. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), she analyzes the values and ideologies ensconced in the various images of black womanhood and their impact on policy formation. This book provides exceptional insight into the racing-gendering process of policy making to show how relations of power and forms of inequality are discursively constructed and impact the lives of African American women.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jordan-Zachery, Julia S

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Perceptions, Culture and Policy: A Racing-Gendering Perspective 2. Mythical Illusions: Cultural Images and Black Womanhood 3. Mammy is a Maniac: Black Women, Images, and Crime 4. You Better Work: ‘Rehabilitation’ and Welfare Policy 5. The Government’s ‘Make a Man Kit’: Family Policies 6. For Us by Us: Redefining Black Womanhood

Über Autor(innen)

Julia S. Jordan-Zachery is Director of the Black Studies Program and Assistant Professor of Political Science, Providence College. Her research focuses on developing a critical policy analysis. Recent articles have appeared in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, National Political Science Review, Journal of Social Policy, Politics & Gender.