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Cripping the Welfare Queen: The Radical Potential of Disability Politics
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 79–101.
Published: 01 September 2021
...Jina B. Kim Abstract Drawing together feminist- and queer-of-color critique with disability theory, this essay offers a literary-cultural reframing of the welfare queen in light of critical discourses of disability. It does so by taking up the discourse of dependency that casts racialized, low...
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The Culture of Poverty, Crack Babies, and Welfare Cheats: THE MAKING OF THE “HEALTHY WHITE BABY CRISIS”
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Social Text (2003) 21 (3 (76)): 39–57.
Published: 01 September 2003
...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...
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The State, the Clock, and the Struggle: AN INQUIRY INTO THE DISCIPLINE FOR WELFARE REFORM IN MONTANA
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 109–134.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Janet L. Finn; Lyne Underwood 5. Finn/Underwood 2/11/00 10:50 AM Page 109
The State, the Clock, and the Struggle
AN INQUIRY INTO THE DISCIPLINE FOR WELFARE REFORM IN MONTANA
“Ending welfare as we know it” has...
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What Film Noir Can Teach Us about “Welfare as We Know It”
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 135–141.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Paula Rabinowitz 6. rabinowitz 2/11/00 10:49 AM Page 135
What Film Noir Can Teach Us about “Welfare as We Know It”
In 1996, when President Clinton promised to “end welfare as we know it,” Paula Rabinowitz
he indulged in his now...
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In the Clinic: THE MEDICALIZATION OF WELFARE
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 81–107.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Sanford F. Schram 4. schram 2/11/00 10:50 AM Page 81
In the Clinic
THE MEDICALIZATION OF WELFARE
The U.S. welfare system has been...
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Artists as Workers: The Undoing of Yugoslav Socialism and the Politics of Unpaid Artistic Labor
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Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 83–115.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of art workers from models based on welfare in the early socialist period to a freelance and self-employment labor model implemented during the last decade of Yugoslav socialism. Linking socialist political economy with the study of art, the article analyzes legal regulation and rare artists...
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African Popular Crime Genres and the Genres of Neoliberalism
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 103–121.
Published: 01 June 2013
... to interrogate the twinned problematics of individuated self-interest as elucidated by neoliberal ideals of economic self-government and governmental capacity to secure public welfare and security in the wake of market-driven structural adjustment programs. With a focus on Wahome Mutahi and Wahome Karengo’s...
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Kara Walker Answers the Urban Question
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 87–112.
Published: 01 December 2017
... anxieties about complicity and success. The Ruffneck show, by contrast, imagined the decimated spaces of the midcentury welfare state to comprise an alternative ground for conceiving the racial origins of progress and thus for evaluating the epistemologies of contemporary liberalism. The article concludes...
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Labor and Class
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 155–157.
Published: 01 September 2009
... characteristics of the new international division of labor, deunionization, decline of the welfare state, industrial relocation, and working conditions in the global South. More recently, the journal made room for work on the impoverishment of the American middle class, on the worsening conditions of academic...
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Collateral Damage: SOUTHEAST ASIAN POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 55–79.
Published: 01 March 2000
... federal assistance programs granted under the Social Security Act
by the year 2002.1 Yet the damaging effects of PRWORA have already
been felt. Those who were targeted to suffer the most immediate and life-
threatening cuts to the welfare state were “legal,” green-card...
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Subject to Suspicion: FEMINISM AND ANTISTATISM IN BRITAIN
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 143–151.
Published: 01 March 2000
...Lynne Segal 7. Segal 2/11/00 10:49 AM Page 143
Subject to Suspicion
FEMINISM AND ANTISTATISM IN BRITAIN
Only state intervention and welfare reforms...
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Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 71–83.
Published: 01 June 2005
... the income and benefi ts needed for a secure
life. Because of the structural poverty of the region, many families receive
help from the state’s Department of Job and Family Services, formally
called the Department of Human Services and known by everyone but
the bureaucrats as “the welfare offi ce...
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Asian Diasporas, Neoliberalism, and Family: REVIEWING THE CASE FOR HOMOSEXUAL ASYLUM IN THE CONTEXT OF FAMILY RIGHTS
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Social Text (2005) 23 (3-4 (84-85)): 101–119.
Published: 01 December 2005
.... Composed
of such practices and logics, neoliberalism has most powerfully affected
the imagined relation between the state and civil society, disorganizing
the fantasy structure if not the actual operation of the so-called closed
welfare economies hegemonic during...
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Contributors
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): np.
Published: 01 March 2000
... 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
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The State, the Clock, and the Struggle: An Inquiry...
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Surveillance in Decolonized Social Space: THE CASE OF SEX WORKERS IN BENGAL
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Social Text (2005) 23 (2 (83)): 55–69.
Published: 01 June 2005
... to include them in the welfare agenda and
regulate their behavior through surveillance that marks their bodies as
domains of sexual health and social discipline.
The prostitutes themselves have responded by asserting their rights
as workers. The emergence of a prostitutes’ forum and their demand...
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“This Isn’t the South Bronx”: Race, Criminality, and Disability in the Contemporary Opioid Epidemic
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Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 27–53.
Published: 01 September 2020
... as though there is no available historical reference. The criminalization of black motherhood has depended on the figure of the “welfare queen,” but for important reasons, there is no such counterpart for poor white mothers. African American studies scholar Wahneema Lubiano identified the “welfare queen...
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After Sexology
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Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 1–16.
Published: 01 September 2021
..., many of the disciplinary functions and discriminatory logics—of sexology were thoroughly institutionalized under many other names: gender clinics, the welfare state, the “war on drugs,” the prison-industrial complex, the criminalization of sex work, and many others. We hold these sites to collectively...
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Missing Poststructuralism, Missing Foucault: BUTLER AND FRASER ON CAPITALISM AND THE REGULATION OF SEXUALITY
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Social Text (2001) 19 (2 (67)): 103–125.
Published: 01 June 2001
... for abortion and the welfare
policies that severely violate the privacy rights of poor single mothers. In
another domain, liberal homosexual activists often champion reforms such
as same-sex marriage in exclusively bourgeois terms. They insist that les-
bian...
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The Sovereignty of Subtraction: Hypo/Hyperhabilitation and the Cultural Politics of Amputation in America
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Social Text (2015) 33 (2 (123)): 1–27.
Published: 01 June 2015
... as regarding the disabled body in terms of risk, control, and expro-
priation rather than welfare or normativity. According to Brian Massumi,
“Under neoliberalism, normativity ceases to be a foundational concern,
or even a constitutive factor. The neoliberal...
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Thinking with Trans Now
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 125–147.
Published: 01 December 2020
... in US print culture tell us about shifts in the relations of racial capital and state capacity. For example, decades before Ronald Reagan ever uttered a word about welfare queens in the 1980s, Lucy Hicks Anderson was arrested and incarcerated in 1945 in Ventura County, California, for accepting her...
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