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Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy book cover

1st Edition

Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy

By Julia S. Jordan-Zachery Copyright 2009
230 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy offers 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... Read more

1. Perceptions, Culture and Policy: A Racing-Gendering Perspective  2. Mythical Illusions: Cultural Images and Black Womanhood  3. Mammy is a Maniac: Black Women, Images, and Crime  4. You Better Work: ‘Rehabilitation’ and Welfare Policy  5. The Government’s ‘Make a Man Kit’: Family Policies  6. For Us by Us: Redefining Black Womanhood

Biography

Julia S. Jordan-Zachery is Director of the Black Studies Program and Assistant Professor of Political Science, Providence College. Her research focuses on developing a critical policy analysis. Recent articles have appeared in Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, National Political Science Review, Journal of Social Policy, Politics & Gender.

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