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What's wrong with the poor? : psychiatry, race, and the war on poverty
- Title
- What's wrong with the poor? : psychiatry, race, and the war on poverty / Mical Raz.
- Author
- Raz, Mical.
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2013.
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- Description
- xiii, 242 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty. In her insightful interdisciplinary history, the author, a physician and historian examines the interplay between psychiatric theory and social policy throughout that decade, ending with President Richard Nixon's 1971 veto of a bill that would have provided universal day care. She shows that this cooperation between mental health professionals and policymakers was based on an understanding of what poor men, women, and children lacked. This perception was rooted in psychiatric theories of deprivation focused on two overlapping sections of American society: the poor had less, and African Americans, disproportionately represented among America's poor, were seen as having practically nothing. She analyzes the political and cultural context that led child mental health experts, educators, and policymakers to embrace this deprivation-based theory and its translation into liberal social policy. Deprivation theory, she shows, continues to haunt social policy today, profoundly shaping how both health professionals and educators view children from low-income and culturally and linguistically diverse homes. -- Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Studies in social medicine
- Uniform Title
- Studies in social medicine.
- Subjects
- Deprivation (Psychology)
- Public Policy > history > United States
- Poverty > history > United States
- Poverty > psychology > United States
- History, 20th Century > United States
- Poor > Government policy > United States
- Poverty > United States > Psychological aspects
- United States > Social policy
- Cultural Deprivation > United States
- Poor > United States
- African Americans > history > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- A mother's touch?: from deprivation to day care -- Cultural deprivation? : race, deprivation, and the nature-nurture debate -- Targeting deprivation: early enrichment and community action -- Deprivation and intellectual disability: from "mild mental retardation" to resegregation -- Environmental psychology and the race riots.
- Call Number
- Sc E 14-542
- ISBN
- 9781469608877 (hardback)
- 1469608871 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2013015589
- OCLC
- 838415439
- Author
- Raz, Mical.
- Title
- What's wrong with the poor? : psychiatry, race, and the war on poverty / Mical Raz.
- Imprint
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2013.
- Series
- Studies in social medicineStudies in social medicine.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 14-542