Does America Hate the Poor? The Other American Dilemma: Lessons for the 21st Century from the 1960s and the 1970s

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Preface vii
• NOTE x
• Acknowledgments xi
• Part I Who are the Poor, and Does America Hate Them? 1
• NOTE 4
• Chapter 1 How America Hates the Poor 5
• Conclusion 15
• NOTES 15
• Chapter 2 Poorfare Culture, Welfare State 17
• Conclusion 23
• Part II Pictures in Plenty: Conceptions of the Underclass 25
• Chapter 3 Laggards and Lushes: Images of the Poor 27
• Conclusion 43
• NOTES 43
• Chapter 4 The Decent Poverty Stricken: Images of the Near Poor 45
• Conclusion 57
• Chapter 5 The Overseer of the Poor: View from the County Welfare Office 59
• Conclusion 70
• NOTE 71
• Chapter 6 Mothers: Opinions and Stereotypes 73
• Conclusion 79
• NOTE 80
• Part III The Life Cycle Poor: Images of the Aged 81
• NOTE 83
• Chapter 7 Images of the Elderly 85
• Conclusion 91
• NOTES 91
• Chapter 8 American Culture and the Aged: Stereotypes and Realities 93
• Conclusion 104
• NOTES 105
• Chapter 9 What the Public Thinks: Older and Younger Adults 107
• Conclusion 123
• NOTE 123
• Part IV Why America Hates Poor 125
• Chapter 10 The Poorfare State: Embodiment and Revelation 129
• Conclusion 131
• Chapter 11 Social Exploitation 133
• Conclusion 142
• NOTES 143
• Chapter 12: Mirror of Destiny 145
• NOTES 152
• References 153
• Bibliography 159
• Index 169
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR 173

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