9 Jezebels, Matriarchs, and Welfare Queens: The Moynihan Report of 1965 and the Social Construction of African-American Women in Welfare Policy

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Historical Roots of Constructions of Deservedness and Entitlement
6. Constructing and Entitling America’s Original Veterans 35
7. Constructing the Democratic Citizen: Idiocy and Insanity in American Suffrage Law 63
8. From “Problem Minority” to “Model Minority”: The Changing Social Construction of Japanese Americans 81
9. Congressional Discourse: Forging Lines of Division between Deserving and Undeserving
10. Contested Images of Race and Place: The Politics of Housing Discrimination 111
11. “It Is Not a Question of Being Anti-immigration”: Categories of Deservedness in Immigration Policy Making 139
12. Nonprofits, Neighborhood Organizations, and the Social Construction of Deservedness
13. The Construction of Client Identities in a Post-welfare Social Service Program: The Double Bind of Microenterprise Development 173
14. Deservedness in Poor Neighborhoods: A Morality Struggle 197
15. Constructions by Moral Entrepreneurs and Policy Analysts
16. From Perception to Public Policy: Translating Social Constructions into Policy Designs 223
17. Jezebels, Matriarchs, and Welfare Queens: The Moynihan Report of 1965 and the Social Construction of African-American Women in Welfare Policy 243
18. Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Good and the Bad 261
19. Social Constructions, Identity, Citizenship, and Participation
20. Making Clients and Citizens: Welfare Policy as a Source of Status, Belief, and Action 291
21. References 329
22. Contributors 357
23. Index 361