Social welfare policy : regulation and resistance among people of color / Jerome H. Schiele, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schiele, Jerome H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social service--United States.

Social service.

Social service and race relations.

United States.

United States--Social policy.

Social policy.

Social service and race relations--United States.

Physical Description:

ix, 380 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, [2011]

Contents:

Regulation and resistance among African Americans

Regulating the lives of children : kinship care as a cultural resistance strategy of the African American community / Tricia B. Bent-Goodley

African American club women's resistance to oppressive public policy in the early 20th century / Iris B. Carlton-LaNey

Involuntary commitment policy : disparities in admissions of African American men to state mental hospitals / King Davis ... [et al.]

Racial control and resistance among African Americans in the aftermath of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 / Jerome H. Schiele and Ellarwee Gadsden

Regulation and resistance among Asian Pacific Americans

A historical understanding of Korean Americans' immigration and resistance against all odds : from Hawaii to New York / Hyunkag Cho

Japanese American resistance to World War II : executive, legislative, and judicial policies / Rita Takahashi

Social exclusion as a form of regulation : experiences and lessons learned in the New York Asian American community / Anita Gundanna, Marianne R. Yoshioka, and Sujata Ghosh

The impact of deportation on Chinese Americans : a family's pain, a community's struggle / Qingwen Xu

Regulation and resistance among Latino/Latina Americans

Latin@s in the public square : understanding Hispanics through the prism of United States immigration policy / Gregory Acevedo

Immigration, dehumanization, and resistance to U.S. immigration policies : pushing against the boundary / Ana L. León and Debora M. Ortega

Fear of calling the police : regulation and resistance around immigration enforcement activities / Lisa Magaña

Creating the Latino agenda for eliminating health disparities in communities : a call to action / Catherine Medina

Regulation and resistance among first nation Americans

Indigenist oppression and resistance in Indian child welfare : reclaiming our children / Tessa Evans-Campbell and Christopher Campbell

American Indian child welfare : the impact of federal regulation and tribal resistance on policies and practice / Gordon E. Limb and Aaron Baxter

Restrictions on indigenous spirituality in the land of the free : "a cruel and surreal result" / Hilary N. Weaver.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781412971034

1412971039

OCLC:

617425471