Includes material on education, illegitamacy, health care, housing, criminal justice, repression, and reform.
The classic work that refutes the lies we tell ourselves about race, poverty and the poor. Here are three myths about poverty in America: - Minority children perform poorly in school because they are "culturally deprived.
Here are three myths about poverty in America: – Minority children perform poorly in school because they are “culturally deprived.” – African-Americans are handicapped by a family structure that is typically unstable and matriarchal ...
Blaming the Victim
The result is that the fundamental determinant of poverty - inequality - is removed from their accounts. The books asks many biting questions. When - and how - does poverty become newsworthy?
Blaming the Victim
This book deconstructs a spectrum of representations and misrepresentations of poverty in mainstream media outlets worldwide, investigating how and why poverty becomes newsworthy - and how the news media frames poverty, in ways that ...