race, media, and the politics of antipoverty policy
Edición de la obra Why Americans hate welfare
| Autor | Martin Gilens |
|---|---|
| Editorial | University of Chicago Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 1999 |
| Lugar | Chicago |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 296 |
| ISBN-10 | 0226293645 |
| OCLC | 648760717, 40179760 |
| LCCN | 98048866 |
| Serie | Studies in communication, media, and public opinion |
| Número de Cutter |
G471wDrawing on surveys of public attitudes and analyses of more than forty years of television and newsmagazine stories on poverty, Gilens demonstrates how public opposition to welfare is fed by a potent combination of racial stereotypes and misinformation about the true nature of America's poor. But white Americans don't oppose welfare simply because they think it benefits blacks; rather, they think it benefits "undeserving" blacks who would rather live off the government than work, a perception powerfully fueled by the media's negative coverage of the black poor. The public's views on welfare, Gilens shows, are a complex mixture of cynicism and compassion; misinformed and racially charged, they nevertheless reflect both a distrust of welfare recipients and a desire to do more to help the "deserving" poor.