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Subject(s)

• Social service and race relations—United States [Browse]
• Social service—United States [Browse]
• United States—Social policy [Browse]

Related name

• Schiele, Jerome H. [Browse]

Summary note

This book puts the issue of race at the centre of social policy and examines the conceptual, historical and practical implications that various social policies have had on people of colour. More importantly, it shows how people of color have responded and resisted to these policies from a strengths-based based approach.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Contents; Acknowledgment; Introduction; Part I - Regulation and Resistance Among African Americans; Chapter 1 - Regulating the Lives of Children: Kinship Care as a Cultural Resistance Strategy of the African American Community; Chapter 2 - African American Club Women's Resistance to Oppressive Public Policy in the Early 20th Century; Chapter 3 - Involuntary Commitment Policy: Disparities in Admissions of African American Men to State Mental Hospitals; Chapter 4 - Racial Control and Resistance Among African Americans in the Aftermath of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996
• Part II - Regulation and Resistance Among Asian Pacific AmericansChapter 5 - A Historical Understanding of Korean Americans' Immigration and Resistance Against All Odds: From Hawaii to New York; Chapter 6 - Japanese American Resistance to World War II: Executive, Legislative, andJudicial Policies; Chapter 7 - Social Exclusion as a Form of Regulation: Experiences and Lessons Learned in the New York Asian American Community; Chapter 8 - The Impact of Deportation on Chinese Americans: A Family's Pain, a Community's Struggle; Part III - Regulation and Resistance Among Latino/Latina Americans
• Chapter 9 - Latin@s in the Public Square: Understanding Hispanics Through the Prism of United States Immigration PolicyChapter 10 - Immigration, Dehumanization, and Resistance to U.S. Immigration Policies: Pushing Against the Boundary; Chapter 11 - Fear of Calling the Police: Regulation and Resistance Around ImmigrationEnforcement Activities; Chapter 12 - Creating the Latino Agenda for Eliminating Health Disparities in Communities: A Call to Action; Part IV - Regulation and Resistance Among First Nation Americans
• Chapter 13 - Indigenist Oppression and Resistance in Indian Child Welfare: Reclaiming Our ChildrenChapter 14 - American Indian Child Welfare: The Impact of Federal Regulation and Tribal Resistance on Policies and Practice; Chapter 15 - Restrictions on Indigenous Spirituality in the Land of the Free: ""A Cruel and Surreal Result""; Conclusion; Index; About the Editor; About the Contributors

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ISBN

• 1-4522-2341-6
• 1-4522-7518-1

OCLC

• 833764393
• 841479324

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