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Blaming the victim / by William Ryan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1976Copyright date: ©1976Edition: Revised, updated editionDescription: xv, 351 pages ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0394717627
  • 9780394717623
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 973.92 23
LOC classification:
  • HN65 .R9 1976
Contents:
The art of savage discovery: how to blame the victim -- Savage discovery in the schools: the folklore of cultural deprivation -- Mammy observed: fixing the Negro family -- The prevalence of bastards: illegitimate views of illegitimacy -- Learning to be poor: the culture of poverty cheesecake -- The hydraulics and economics of misery: the society for the preservation of disease -- Taking people out of Oak Street: slums, suburbs and subsidies -- Illegal order: the administration of injustice -- Counting Black bodies: riots, raids and repression -- In praise of loot and clout: money, power and social change..
Summary: "Originally published in 1970, William Ryan’s groundbreaking and exhaustively researched work challenges both liberal and conservative assumptions, serving up a devastating critique of the mindset that causes us to blame the poor for their poverty and the powerless for their powerlessness. More than twenty years later, it is even more meaningful for its diagnosis of the psychic underpinnings of racial and social injustice."--Publisher's website.Summary: Includes material on education, illegitimacy, health care, housing, criminal justice, repression, and reform.
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Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 973.92 RYA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A554106B
Book South Campus South Campus Main Collection 973.92 RYA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A554081B
Book South Campus South Campus Main Collection 973.92 RYA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A554080B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The art of savage discovery: how to blame the victim -- Savage discovery in the schools: the folklore of cultural deprivation -- Mammy observed: fixing the Negro family -- The prevalence of bastards: illegitimate views of illegitimacy -- Learning to be poor: the culture of poverty cheesecake -- The hydraulics and economics of misery: the society for the preservation of disease -- Taking people out of Oak Street: slums, suburbs and subsidies -- Illegal order: the administration of injustice -- Counting Black bodies: riots, raids and repression -- In praise of loot and clout: money, power and social change..

"Originally published in 1970, William Ryan’s groundbreaking and exhaustively researched work challenges both liberal and conservative assumptions, serving up a devastating critique of the mindset that causes us to blame the poor for their poverty and the powerless for their powerlessness. More than twenty years later, it is even more meaningful for its diagnosis of the psychic underpinnings of racial and social injustice."--Publisher's website.

Includes material on education, illegitimacy, health care, housing, criminal justice, repression, and reform.

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