What's Wrong with the Poor? Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty

Name: What's Wrong with the Poor? Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty
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ISBN: 9781469608877

ISBN-10: 1469608871

ISBN-13: 9781469608877

Edition: 2013

Authors: Mical Raz

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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, physician and historian Mical Raz 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…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/11/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.066
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



A Mothers 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


Conclusion


Notes


Index