Blaming the Victim: Defining and Defending National Interests - Tapa blanda

Ryan, William

 
9780394722269: Blaming the Victim: Defining and Defending National Interests
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ISBN 10: 0394722264 ISBN 13: 9780394722269
Editorial: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1976

Sinopsis

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.”
– African-Americans are handicapped by a family structure that is typically unstable and matriarchal.
– Poor people suffer from bad health because of ignorance and lack of interest in proper health care.

Blaming the Victim was the first book to identify these truisms as part of the system of denial that even the best-intentioned Americans have constructed around the unpalatable realities of race and class. 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.

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Dr. William Ryan was a sociologist, writer, researcher, and consultant in the fields of mental health, community planning, and social problems. He published many articles in professional journals and national magazines. Dr. Ryan participated for many years in direct demonstrations, pamphleteering, and political activity on civil rights issues. He was also the editor of Distress in the City: Essays in the Design and Administration of Urban Mental Health Services, published in 1969. His 1971 book Blaming the Victim was a landmark text in the fields of social justice and human services.

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Editorial
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Año de publicación
1976
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0394722264
ISBN 13 
9780394722269
Encuadernación
Libro de bolsillo
Número de páginas
368
Contacto del fabricante
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ISBN 10:  0394417267 ISBN 13:  9780394417264
Editorial: New York, Pantheon Books Inc, 1971
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