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Does America Hate the Poor? - The Other American Dilemma, Lessons for the 21st Century from the 1960s and the 1970s (Hardcover, New)
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Does America Hate the Poor? - The Other American Dilemma, Lessons for the 21st Century from the 1960s and the 1970s (Hardcover, New)
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Tropman examines American values and the two groups that threaten
those values. One might wonder why, in the world's wealthiest
society, do the poor seem so stigmatized. Tropman's answer is that
they represent potential and actual fates that create anxiety
within the dominant culture and within the actual poor themselves.
The response in society is hatred of the poor, he contends, and
among the poor themselves, self-hatred. Two groups of poor are
analyzed. The status poor--those at the bottom of America's money,
deference, power, education, or occupation (and combinations of
those). The status poor embody the truth that, in the land of
opportunity, not all succeed. The elderly are the life cycle poor.
They are deficient of future, and in the land of opportunity, to
have one's own life trajectory circumscribe hope is a condition
that must be denied. Poorhate is a classic example of "blame the
victim." Tropman explores the process of poorhate through data from
the 1960s and 1970s, and he uses the past to illuminate the
probelms of the present, and, hopefully, to assist in crafting a
better future. A provocative work for students and scholars of
social welfare policy and policymakers themselves.
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