Class, Culture, Representation

Week 11 Day 1 Discussion Question 5

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Last week, we examined African American women’s relationship to “the War on Welfare.”  Having recently considered the figure of the “black welfare queen,” are you satisfied with Alexander’s male-centered focus in The New Jim Crow?  Why or why not?

Author: Holly Allen

I am an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Program at Middlebury College. I teach courses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. cultural history, gender studies, disability, and consumer culture.

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