Social Welfare Policy : Regulation and Resistance among People of Color

by Jerome H. Schiele

• ISBN13: 9781412971034
• ISBN10: 1412971039
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-10
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

Summary

This book puts the issue of race at the center of social policy and examines the conceptual, historical and practical implications that various social policies have had on people of color (defined broadly as African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, and Asian Americans). More importantly, it shows how people of color have responded and resisted to these policies from a strengths-based approach, rather than presenting them as passive victims as many other current texts do.It will be particularly appealing to social workers whose main thrust is not only to help those who have been underserved, but to help enhance policies that might be perpetuating the problem.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgment	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Regulation and Resistance Among African Americans
Regulating the Lives of Children: Kinship Care as a Cultural Resistance Strategy of the African American Community	p. 25
African American Club Women's Resistance to Oppressive Public Policy in the Early 20th Century	p. 43
Involuntary Commitment Policy: Disparities in Admissions of African American Men to State Mental Hospitals	p. 63
Racial Control and Resistance Among African Americans in the Aftermath of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996	p. 91
Regulation and Resistance Among Asian Pacific Americans
A Historical Understanding of Korean Americans' Immigration and Resistance Against All Odds: From Hawaii to New York	p. 113
Japanese American Resistance to World War II: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Policies	p. 135
Social Exclusion as a Form of Regulation: Experiences and Lessons Learned in the New York Asian American Community	p. 165
The Impact of Deportation on Chinese Americans: A Family's Pain, a Community's Struggle	p. 185
Regulation and Resistance Among Latino/Latina Americans
Latin@s in the Public Square: Understanding Hispanics Through the Prism of United States Immigration Policy	p. 215
Immigration, Dehumanization, and Resistance to U.S. Immigration Policies: Pushing Against the Boundary	p. 237
Fear of Calling the Police: Regulation and Resistance Around Immigration Enforcement Activities	p. 255
Creating the Latino Agenda for Eliminating Health Disparities in Communities: A Call to Action	p. 271
Regulation and Resistance Among First Nation Americans
Indigenist Oppression and Resistance in Indian Child Welfare: Reclaiming Our Children	p. 295
American Indian Child Welfare: The Impact of Federal Regulation and Tribal Resistance on Policies and Practice	p. 315
Restrictions on Indigenous Spirituality in the Land of the Free: "A Cruel and Surreal Result"	p. 329
Conclusion	p. 349
Index	p. 357
About the Editor	p. 371
About the Contributors	p. 373
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