...Ana Teresa Ortiz; Laura Briggs Duke University Press 2003 The Culture of Poverty, Crack Babies, and Welfare Cheats THE MAKING OF THE “HEALTHY WHITE BABY CRISIS” In 2002, a researcher looking for endocrine markers of early childhood Ana...

...Eric Tang 3. tang 2/11/00 10:50 AM Page 55 Collateral Damage SOUTHEAST ASIAN POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES On 22 August 1996, President Bill Clinton signed...

... of fiction; his authorial relation to cultures of poverty; and themes such as nostalgia, exploitation, opportunism, pleasure, negative effects, risk, and the enjoyment of difference. The interview was conducted live at the Trashing Performance symposium, during a day of discussions and lectures called...

..., on folkloric stories of the hyena (which is a pan-African phenomenon) but looks as well at contemporary mass-mediated images of poverty and aid. Similarly, its cinematic strategies and aesthetics uniquely draw from European, American, and African sources. This combination of influences in the film reinforces...

... policy concerns. The country has moved away from the “war on poverty” initiated in the 1960s to the “war on welfare” that has dominated the 1990s.2 The pre-1960s assumption that reliance on public assistance for anything other than a very short period of time...

...- ration would look like; but little attention was paid to its history. What is the welfare we know? The Social Security Act of 1935, the 1944 GI Bill of Rights, the Interstate Highway Act of 1956, all of which have been enor- mously successful in alleviating poverty...

... Children’s Code stating that poverty alone should, under no circumstances, justify the loss of parental authority has been attributed by certain analysts (Abreu 2002) to the reaction against the plundering of Brazilian children by “rich” foreigners.4 Another even more consequential legacy of Brazil’s...

... in the American City Andy Merrifield 31 Collateral Damage: Southeast Asian Poverty in the United States Eric Tang 55 In the Clinic: The Medicalization of Welfare Sanford F. Schram 81 The State, the Clock, and the Struggle: An Inquiry...

... Community (EEC), tailing the United States in its soaring inequal- ity, with poverty in the United States estimated at twice that of any other 144 Lynne Segal 7. Segal 2/11/00 10:49 AM Page 145 European nation, despite having...

... the histories of dispossession, disenfranchisement, displacement, poverty, and violence that so profoundly shaped people’s everyday lives, their relationships to each other, and their places in the racist order that was the legacy of the apartheid state. These exciting and promising beginnings were...

... It is this new inscription of urban space and rural back spaces that informs, directly or indirectly, the inordinate attention also given to urban poverty by projects influenced by the new “urban turn” in the language of international development. These new spatial inscriptions beg the question...

... of billionaires in the ex-Comecon bloc has been paid for by a rise in deep poverty, from under 3 million in 1988 to almost 170 million today. It is tempting to characterize this “triumph of market democracy” as the greatest peacetime...

... strength fast, demanding a new innovative growth-with-equity urbaniza- tion paradigm. They are doing this when the numbers of people and fam- 32 Andy Merrifield 2. merrifield 2/11/00 10:50 AM Page 33 ilies living below the poverty...

... aesthetic apprehension of these conditions defamiliarizes the too familiar images and narratives of poverty and violence in Mexico. 12 Instead, it slowly awakens the viewer’s senses to the interior struggles of its characters that arise out of specific material and political realities. The film’s...

... conversations about the distribution of resources in a country where more than a third of Latino/Latina and African American children, and more than a fifth of all children, are living in poverty.32 KIPP grew from Teach for America (TFA...

.... The social origins of suffering and distress, includ- ing poverty and discrimination, even if fleetingly recognized, are set aside, while effort is expended in controlling disease and averting death through biomedical manipulations.5 Furthermore, Lock continues: It is now...

... representations of poverty. The agency aims at provid- ing actors who “act” their own poverty, so that the villeros, or “negros villeros,” “act” as villeros, making explicit the idea of the collapse of all distinctions between “being” and “performance,” between...

... to explain poverty and educational attainment. Conservatives personalize and pathologize, attributing lesser attainments to deficiencies in character and life choices. In America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible (1989), Stephan...

... the “wars on poverty and drugs that combined to situate disease and enmity in the bodies of poor women.” 8 The Black mother as disease, Gumbs elaborates, “[posed] a threat on privileged populations through tax burdens, crime, and the general erosion of quality of life,” representing a path of infection...

... of North Carolina Press. Marx, Karl. 1978 . The value form. Capital and Class 4 (spring): 130 -50. Payer, Cheryl. 1991 . Lent and lost: Foreign credit and Third World development . London: Zed. Rahnema, Majid. 1991 . Global poverty: A pauperizing myth. Interculture 24.2 : 5 . Rai...