VLVL2 Zoyd as "welfare cheat"?

[pynchonoid]

An interesting sounding argument that links racial
stereotypes to the "welfare cheat" characterization...


Gilens, Martin Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race,
Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy. xii,
296 p., 26 line drawings, 32 tables. 1999 Series:
(SCMPO) Studies in Communication, Media, and Public
Opinion 

Cloth $25.00 0-226-29364-5 Spring 1999 
Paper $17.00 0-226-29365-3 Fall 2000 

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 

<http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/15714.ctl>

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