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Sugar's Life in the Hood: The Story of a Former Welfare Mother

2 reviews
Sugar Turner, Tracy Bachrach Ehlers

University of Texas Press, 2003

Entertaining...enlightening...thought-provoking
I am a middle class white woman who lived all her life in predominantly white neighborhoods until 7 months ago, when I moved onto an ethnically diverse, upscale block in the middle of the hood. This book, SUGAR'S LIFE IN THE HOOD, confirmed what my experiences here had been teaching me: that black culture, in some ways, resembles the stereotypes with which I had been raised, but in many other ...

Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats: From Welfare Cheat to Conservative Messenger

29 reviews
Star Parker

Pocket, 1998

Be responsible for yourself
Star Parker began life as an Air Force brat. She hung with a bad crowd and ended up on welfare. With the moral support of friends she got out of all that and made something of her life. Star Parker is proof that welfare is not for generations to live on, but with a little personal ambition and responsibility for one's self you can be someone.

The MYTH OF THE WELFARE QUEEN: A PULTIZER PRIZE-WINNING JOURNALIST'S PORTRAIT OF WOMEN ON THE LINE

10 reviews
David Zucchino

Scribner, 1999

Unbiased Journalistic View That WIll Make You Think
This is not the book to read if you are trying to make up your mind about welfare issues or reinforce the ideas that you already have. It is an amazingly unjudgemental look at the lives of those on welfare in the inner city that will at times make you raving mad, whether at the people who refuse to work with the system for the sake of their children or at a system that fails those who give ...

Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform

8 reviews
Sharon Hays

Oxford University Press, USA, 2003

"Reform" Sucks
This book will prove enlightening to anyone who is concerned with the consequences of "welfare reform." Flat Broke, while "putting a face on" reform, provides the analytical tools with which to understand the crux of the welfare dilemma. The dilemma is not unique to those women who must turn to public assistance, it is one faced by all those that live within American culture. Work and family. ...

Ordinary Heroes: A Tribute to Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients: Reflections of Freedom, Faith, Duty ...

4 reviews
Tom Casalini, Timothy Wallis

Sweet Pea Press, 2001

Touching on a different level
Mr. Casalini's book is incredible -- I found myself tearing up at some of the descriptions and pictures. These men are incredibly brave, but at the same time, none seemed to be anything but the guy next door. The wonderfulness of ordinary was truly captured and championed in this amazing book.

Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Beyond

3 reviews

South End Press, 2002

Another great book from AK Press
The downside of welfare reforn is well documented in this new anthology. Moreover, welfare issues are analyzed in the context of broad political shifts, including globalization, the end of the family wage, the sexual revolution, and rise of black liberation, feminism, and multiculturalism.

American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare

25 reviews
Jason DeParle

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2005

An immensely moving, informative, entertaining book
I really loved this book. Its a very quick read and its also extremely informative. You will learn so much about what its like to live in poverty in the US. It also details the history of welfare in America, how it was changed, and where it stands now. The book is no liberal propaganda either. The NY Times reporter who wrote the book comes to some very surprising, often conservative-leaning ...

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

7 reviews
Dorothy Roberts

Vintage, 1998

Needed account of reproductive history
Roberts, a Rutgers law professor, examines the sociopolitical reproductive history of black women--concluding this group did and still faces disparate treatment in public policy. The combined impact of race/ethnicity, sex and ecconomic status govern black women's relation to their own bodies--and treatment from policymakers and medical personnel. While this premise has been previously examined ...

Welfare Brat: A Memoir

7 reviews
Mary Childers

Bloomsbury USA, 2006

Childers Delivers Honest Memoir
Mary Childers delivers an eye-opening account of what it's like to grow up poor. In her distinctive, engaging style of writing, Childers describes what it was like to try to assert her own identity, and initiate her pursuit of academic excellence, even when it was not highly valued by her family. Vacillating between loving and loathing her large brood of brothers and sisters, Childers ...

Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America's Poor

1 review
Kenneth Neubeck

Routledge, 2001

In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina With
its racial/gender/class divisions played out before our very eyes on television as well as divisive commentaries on the racial/class impact on society by commentators, bloggers, and politicians. This book examines the racial/gender/class card played out by politicians, both left and right spectrums of the political ideology. How they used long-standing image of poor Black women with kids as a ...

United States of America's Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients: And Their Official Citations

3 reviews

Highland House II, 2007

Amazing Courage. These stories will move you.
This book is one of the most powerful that I have ever read, though I must admit that I have not read each and every biography that this huge volume contains. It is more of a reference book, but is still enormously valuable. These individuals define patriotism, and will undoubtedly make you have new respect for America. To attempt to describe some of the things that these men did would not be ...

Battered Black Women And Welfare Reform: Between a Rock And a Hard Place (Suny Series in African American ...
Dana-ain Davis

State University of New York Press, 2006

Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence.

Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream

1 review
Ruth Sidel

University of California Press, 2006

Good read, not exactly good representative of single mothers as a whole.
This book gives a bird's eye view of what it's like to be a single mother. The book is pertaining to a study that Sidel did where she interviewed single mothers in the NYC area. All ages, ethnicities, and Socio-economic status' were interviewed. Excerpts from some of these interviews form the backbones of each chapter's theme. The first half to two-thirds of the book use excerpts that do ...

War Heroes: True Stories of Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients

2 reviews
Kent DeLong

Praeger Publishers, 1993

War Heroes
Very inspiring accounts of the actions of Medal of Honor Recipients. Easy to read and you don't want to put it down.

Policy into Action: Implementation Research and Welfare Reform

Urban Institute Press, 2003

So You Think I Drive a Cadillac?: Welfare Recipients' Perspectives on the System and Its Reform (2nd Edition)

2 reviews
Karen Seccombe

Allyn & Bacon, 2006

Plain language a welcome when discussing poverty and welfare
Finally, a book that discusses the subject of poverty, welfare dependency and our economic system by using the plain, spoken English language. Gone are the doctorial essays on social stratification, mind-numbing research statistics, and twenty letter words. This book provides a superb overview of the subject without it being too elementary. She uses renown experts on the subject, and than ...

The Welfare Marketplace: Privatization and Welfare Reform (A Center for Public Service Report)
Mary Bryna Sanger

Brookings Institution Press, 2003

This study examines the trend toward competitive contracting of government functions. By focusing on four jurisdictions that hired private firms to handle welfare-to-work services, it reveals the ways in which increased contracting with the private and nonprofit sectors is changing the role and capacity of government, threatening accountability and responsiveness to groups with special needs. Encouraging improved performance through market ...

Not Working: Latina Immigrants, Low-Wage Jobs, and the Failure of Welfare Reform

1 review
Alejandra Marchevsky, Jeanne Theoharis

NYU Press, 2006

Two left academics try to rebut underclass theory
Written by two left-wing academics, this book covers many subjects: left-wing theory about what creates poverty, the history and economic and demographic background of Long Beach, California, the 1996 welfare reforms as they were implemented in Los Angeles County and finally an ethnographic study of a number of Latina women on welfare in Long Beach, after the 1996 reforms passed. The authors ...

The Politics of Disgust: The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen

1 review
Ange-Marie Hancock

NYU Press, 2004

How 'not in my backyard' grew to 'not in our country'
When welfare was originally developed in the 1930's, the white women who were elgible for this government assistance (the rolls were racially segregated until the 1960's) were supposed to go on welfare and stay at home with their children to meet the 'ideal' WASP gender role of the homemaker. Even if they lacked a male breadwinner (as was the social norm back then) these women were also ...

Blame Welfare, Ignore Poverty and Inequality

2 reviews
Joel F. Handler, Yeheskel Hasenfeld

Cambridge University Press, 2006

Repeated Failures
The authors have important things to say about poverty in the United States. One is that we citizens need to stop obsessing over the incredibly few individuals who will take advantage of any welfare program we can devise, and instead we need to start looking at the increasing numbers of genuinely struggling individuals who need a bit of assistance. The United States' policies for dealing with ...

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