Does America hate the poor? the other American dilemma : lessons for the 21st century from the 1960s and the 1970s
Title:
Does America hate the poor? the other American dilemma : lessons for the 21st century from the 1960s and the 1970s
Author:
Tropman, John E.
ISBN:
9780313388583
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1998.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 172 p.) : ill.
Contents:
Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Who Are The Poor, and Does America Hate Them?; Part II: Pictures in Plenty: Conceptions of the Underclass; Part III: The Life Cycle Poor: Images of the Aged; Part IV: Why America Hates the Poor; References; Bibliography; Index;
Abstract:
Tropman examines American values and the two groups that threaten those values. One might wonder why, in the world's wealthiest society, do the poor seem so stigmatized. Tropman's answer is that they represent potential and actual fates that create anxiety within the dominant culture and within the actual poor themselves. The response in society is hatred of the poor, he contends, and among the poor themselves, self-hatred.
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