Description: Why Americans Hate Welfare : Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy, Paperback by Gilens, Martin, ISBN 0226293653, ISBN-13 9780226293653, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK Tackling one of the most volatile issues in contemporary politics, Martin Gilens's work punctures myths and misconceptions about welfare policy, public opinion, and the role of the media in both. Why Americans Hate Welfare shows that the public's views on welfare are a complex mixture of cynicism and compassion; misinformed and racially charged, they nevertheless reflect both a distrust of welfare recipients and a desire to do more to help the "deserving" poor. "With one out of five children currently living in poverty and more than 100,000 families with children now homeless, Gilens's book is must reading if you want to understand how the mainstream media have helped justify, and even produce, this state of affairs." &;Susan Douglas, The Progressive "Gilens's well-written and logically developed argument deserves to be taken seriously." &;Choice "A provocative analysis of American attitudes towards 'welfare.'. . . [Gilens] shows how racial stereotypes, not white self-interest or anti-statism, lie at the root of opposition to welfare programs." -Library Journal
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Book Title: Why Americans Hate Welfare : Race, Media, and the Politics of Ant
Number of Pages: 303 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy
Publisher: T.H.E. University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2000
Subject: Social Sciences
Item Height: 228 mm
Item Weight: 512 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Martin Gilens
Subject Area: Economic Sociology, Social Services
Series: Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion (Chup)
Item Width: 167 mm
Format: Paperback
