Sociology of Poverty and the Constraint of Race
Questions from the Text: The Constraint of Race
Question 1
Critically discuss how the New Racial Politics and Social Policy in the Nixon years (1970’s) and
Reagan and Bush years (1980) affected women and people of color. Also, discuss the factors that set the stage for the New Racial Politics.
Question 2
Discuss in detail how (1) political forces rooted in the legacy of the great society; (2) the democratic controlled congress; (3) various bureaucrats within the Welfare state; civil rights organizations etc. prevented Reagan/Bush administrations from fulfilling their promise to fundamentally “cut-back” on social policies, eliminate affirmative action and dramatically transform the American Welfare state.
Question 3
What strategies did President Clinton use to reduce the political salience of race and retain African American and Latino political support?
Question 4
Critically discuss President Clinton’s crime bill and its effects on people of color. Also discuss the failure of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and other Black organizations to oppose the crime bill.
Question 5
Critically discuss the background factors/conditions that led up to the 1996 Welfare Reform. Be sure to also discuss, the stereotypical image of welfare recipients; the deficit; the Contract with America; tax expenditures for business and the hidden welfare for the affluent; coded messages, etc.
Question 6
Critically discuss the 1996 Welfare Reform showing among other things that it was not “race neutral,” and the failure of the Congressional Black Caucus, Left Organizations, women and Latino Civil Rights Organizations to oppose it. Also discuss the effects of Welfare Reform
on women and people of color, recommendations to improve the conditions for women and people of color, etc.
Question from Text: Today’s Globalization
Question 7
What is new about today’s globalization- especially the technology of production, communication and distribution? How does this impact our lives- the political economy of the wages, market system; culture, ideology and the media: politics and structures of social control and domination?
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