Punishing the "Welfare Queen": Gender and the Roots of U.S. Mass Incarceration
Friday, September 14, 2018 12pm to 1pm
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Central Campus
https://www.facebook.com/events/1836525746439584/This talk explores the origins in the 1970s of the “welfare queen,” the racialized caricature depicting poor mothers as lazy cheaters. Kohler-Hausmann discusses how these stereotypes rationalized dismantling the social safety net, as well as the role that gender and anti-welfare politics played in the unprecedented expansion of the U.S. penal system during the late twentieth century.
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