A01=Michael Lewis
American conservatism
American exceptionalism critique
American guilt
American ideology
American moral values
American political culture
American social policy
American values critique
antipoverty programs
Author_Michael Lewis
bootstrap mythology
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Category=JBS
class prejudice
crime and punishment America
crime fascination
criminal justice history
criminalization of poverty
cultural attitudes poverty
cultural psychology
cultural scapegoating
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free market ideology
historical inequality
incarceration culture
individualism and inequality
inequality and culture
inequality and individualism
liberal failure
media and crime
meritocracy myth
national mythology
opportunity gap
opportunity ideology
policy and prejudice
political psychology
political sociology
poverty and blame
poverty cycle
poverty stigma
prejudice and policy
Protestant work ethic
punitive attitudes
punitive social policy
race and class America
race and crime narrative
racial capitalism
racial prejudice roots
social Darwinism
social failure stigma
social mobility barriers
social shame
social stratification
social welfare critique
sociology of poverty
structural inequality
success and failure culture
systemic failure
systemic racism
underclass theory
victim blaming culture
war on poverty history
welfare state critique
Product details
- ISBN 9780870238574
- Weight: 335g
- Dimensions: 154 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 May 1993
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Who do America's wars against poverty turn out to be wars against the poor? Why does a nation so committed to fighting crime show such a bad record of combating it and so morbid a fascination with it? Why is American racism so deeply rooted? This study aims to answer these and other questions. Its central thesis is that the national faith in individual initiative and free opportunity has become a breeding ground for guilt about our own limited successes and prejudice against all who exhibit signs of failure.
