Black women, cultural images and social policy
By: by Julia Jordan-Zachery.
Series: Routledge studies in North American politics -- 2
Publisher: New York
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780415996785
Subjects: African American women -- Social conditions; African American women in popular culture; African American women -- Government policy
Description: "Black Women, Cultural Images and Social Policy offers a critical analysis of the policy-making process. Jordan-Zachery demonstrates how social meanings surrounding the discourses on crime, welfare and family policies produce and reproduce discursive practices that maintain gender and racial hierarchies. Using critical discourse analysis (CDA), she analyzes the values and ideologies ensconced in the various images of black womanhood and their impact on policy formation. This book provides exceptional insight into the racing-gendering process of policy making to show how relations of power and forms of inequality are discursively constructed and impact the lives of African American women."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.