Title: Poverty, politics, and change.
Authors: James, Dorothy Buckton, 1937-
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Year: 1972
Subjects: Poor United States; Poverty; Economic assistance, Domestic United States.
Contents: American poverty. Defining poverty. Measuring poverty. Who are the poor? -- American values that maintain and perpetuate poverty. Materilistic individualism and ethnocentrism. Resulting public attitudes toward the poor -- Reflection of American values in national policy toward the poor -- Reflection of American values in attitudes and procedures of the professions. Medicine. Education. Law. Social workers and welfare workers. Resulting self-image of the poor -- Economic and political factors that maintatin and perpetuate American poverty. Accelerating change in American Economic Organization. Decentralization of the American political system -- The cost of American poverty. Bessie Smith: Woman's work... Jeremy Shaw: Down and out down East. Geroge Nalbandian: From generations of Turk fighters. Jose ́Garcia: Redundant man. Alice Whitecloud: The costs of being "Quaint" -- The chances for change.