TY  - BOOK
AU  - Raz,Mical
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - What's wrong with the poor?: psychiatry, race, and the war on poverty 
T2  - Studies in social medicine
SN  - 9781469612669
AV  - HV95 .R39 2013
U1  - 362.50973 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Deprivation (Psychology)
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Poor
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - history
KW  - History, 20th Century
KW  - Cultural Deprivation
KW  - African Americans
KW  - psychology
KW  - Social policy
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "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 less, and African Americans, disproportionately represented among America's poor, were seen as having practically nothing. Raz analyzes the political and cultural context that led child mental health experts, educators, and policymakers to embrace this deprivation-based theory and its translation into liberal social policy. Deprivation theory, she shows, continues to haunt social policy today, profoundly shaping how both health professionals and educators view children from low-income and culturally and linguistically diverse homes"--Provided by publisher
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781469612669/
ER  -