Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy
Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy
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为什么美国人讨厌福利：种族、媒体和反贫困政策的政治
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1999
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Martin Gilens
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Frances S. Hasso;Martin Gilens
本书基于对公众态度的调查以及对 40 多年来电视和新闻杂志有关贫困问题的报道的分析，展示了种族成见和关于美国穷人真实本质的错误信息的有力结合如何助长了公众对福利的反对。但答案不仅仅是美国白人反对福利，因为他们认为这对黑人有利；相反，他们认为这对“不值得”的黑人有利，他们宁愿依靠政府生活也不愿工作，媒体对贫困黑人的负面报道有力地助长了这种看法。马丁·吉伦斯不仅审视公众舆论和公共政策，而且还审视公众舆论和公共政策。他还探讨了形成这些态度的历史背景以及新闻媒体在"种族化"贫困和扶贫方案中所发挥的作用。吉伦斯表示，公众对福利的看法是愤世嫉俗和同情心的复杂结合。尽管这些信息被误导并带有种族歧视，但它们既反映出对福利接受者的不信任，又反映了为帮助应得的穷人做更多事情的愿望。
Drawing on surveys of public attitudes and analyses of more than 40 years of television and newsmagazine stories on poverty, this book demonstrates how public opposition to welfare is fed by a potent combination of racial stereotypes and misinformation about the true nature of America's poor. But the answer isn't simply that white Americans oppose welfare because they think it benefits blacks; rather, they think it benefits "undeserving" blacks who would rather live off the government than work, a perception powerfully fuelled by the media's negative coverage of the black poor. Martin Gilens not only examines public opinion and public policy; he also explores the historical context that shaped these attitudes and the role the news media have played in "racializing" poverty and poverty programmes. The public's views on welfare, Gilens shows, are a complex mixture of cynicism and compassion; misinformed and racially charged, they nevertheless reflect both a distrust of welfare recipients and a desire to do more to help the deserving poor.