TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ryan,William
TI  - Blaming the victim
SN  - 0394717627
AV  - HN65 .R9 1976
U1  - 973.92 23
PY  - 1976///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Blame
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Social Conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1960-1980
N1  - 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
N2  - "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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