Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy

by Jordan-zachery; Julia S.

• ISBN13: 9780415996785
• ISBN10: 0415996783
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policyoffers a critical analysis of the policy-making process. Jordan-Zachery demonstrates how social meanings surrounding the discourses on crime, welfare and family policies produce and reproduce discursive practices that maintain gender and racial hierarchies. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), she analyzes the values and ideologies ensconced in the various images of black womanhood and their impact on policy formation. This book provides exceptional insight into the racing-gendering process of policy making to show how relations of power and forms of inequality are discursively constructed and impact the lives of African American women.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Perceptions, Culture and Policy: A Racing-Gendering Perspective	p. 1
Mythical Illusions: Cultural Images and Black Womanhood	p. 26
Mammy Is a Maniac: Black Women, Images and Crime	p. 49
You Better Work: "Rehabilitation" and Welfare Policy	p. 80
The Government's "Make a Man Kit": Family Policies	p. 111
For Us By Us: Redefining Black Womanhood	p. 144
Appendix A	p. 167
Appendix B	p. 175
Notes	p. 183
Bibliography	p. 189
Index	p. 211
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