Black Women Under State Surveillance Poverty The Violence Of Social Assistance

Author : Idil Abdillahi
Publisher : Arp Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1927886589

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Black Women Under State: Surveillance, Poverty & the Violence of Social Assistance by Idil Abdillahi Pdf

The lives and conditions of Black women are inseparable from, and inextricably linked to, all dimensions of social and political life. Black Women Under State centres the realities of Black women, both in process and theory, who are living at the intersections of race, poverty, surveillance, and social services. Abdillahi, who is uniquely positioned as a community organizer, care worker, public intellectual, and scholar, engaged twenty women living at these life-intersections in the greater Toronto area. The text undertakes a deep and studied inquiry into these women?s subjective experiences of surveillance while on the province of Ontario?s social assistance program Ontario Works, and interrogates the dimensional effects of those experiences. Offering a timely and crucial contribution to the discourse around abolition, Abdillahi makes explicit the ways in which social systems are made opaque so that we don?t connect them to the carceral state; this concept of carceral care talks to abolition as the broad concept that it is?a fully-embraced understanding that abolition dismantles systems of policing that extend beyond the institution we call the police. Three major themes emerge through her inquiry: surveillance, poverty, and morality?each interconnected to a larger social and public policy discourse. Abdillahi employs Critical Race Theory and Black Feminist Thought as primary theoretical lenses as she animates the lives of these women, alongside and in conversation with existing research, theory and practice, revealing direct links among their experience, in order to demonstrate the shared, longstanding, and ongoing historicity of the interconnectedness of Black women?s experience globally. The vast majority of the book?s citations are from Black Canadians, giving the text its own narrative around citational practice. Through a dynamic interlacing of contemporary critical thought and lived experience, Black Women Under State contributes to filling a gap in social policy literature, which has typically disregarded the subjective experiences of Black women or treated them as a mere addendum.

Author : Dana-Ain Davis
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791481301

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Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform by Dana-Ain Davis Pdf

Examines the consequences of welfare reform for Black women fleeing domestic violence.

Author : Robyn Maynard
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552669808

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Policing Black Lives by Robyn Maynard Pdf

Delving behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of nearly four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada. While highlighting the ubiquity of Black resistance, Policing Black Lives traces the still-living legacy of slavery across multiple institutions, shedding light on the state’s role in perpetuating contemporary Black poverty and unemployment, racial profiling, law enforcement violence, incarceration, immigration detention, deportation, exploitative migrant labour practices, disproportionate child removal and low graduation rates. Emerging from a critical race feminist framework that insists that all Black lives matter, Maynard’s intersectional approach to anti-Black racism addresses the unique and understudied impacts of state violence as it is experienced by Black women, Black people with disabilities, as well as queer, trans, and undocumented Black communities. A call-to-action, Policing Black Lives urges readers to work toward dismantling structures of racial domination and re-imagining a more just society.

Author : Krys Maki
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781773634944

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Ineligible by Krys Maki Pdf

A comprehensive examination of welfare state surveillance and regulation of single mothers in Ontario.

Author : Gloria Blizzard
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459752825

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Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas by Gloria Blizzard Pdf

A diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion. In this powerful and deeply personal collection, Gloria Blizzard uses traditional narrative essays, hybrid structures, and the tools of poetry to negotiate the complexities of culture, geography, and language in an international diasporic quest. These essays of wayfinding accompany anyone exploring issues of belonging — to a family, a neighbourhood, a group, or a country. Here, the small is profound, the intimate universal; the questions are all relevant and the answers of our times require simultaneous multiple perspectives.

Author : Rinaldo Walcott,Idil Abdillahi
Publisher : Semaphore
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 192788621X

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Black Life by Rinaldo Walcott,Idil Abdillahi Pdf

Black Life seeks to place the activist work of Black Lives Matter Toronto in a broader context of Black Canadian activist struggles and Black struggles globally. In this work BLM's intervention into the Toronto political realm marks a dis/continuous Black Canadian activism that erupts and wanes in response to local, national and international Black protest.

Author : Joan Pennell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000609042

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A Restorative Approach to Family Violence by Joan Pennell Pdf

A Restorative Approach to Family Violence looks back at an early and successful demonstration of a family and culturally based model to stop severe family violence. This conferencing model, called family group decision making, was applied by three diverse Canadian communities—Inuit, rural, and urban—to the benefit of child and adult family members. Narrative inquiry identifies how engaging the family and relatives resets the narrative from misrecognition to recognition of their competence and caring. Family violence poses some of the most long-term and controversial questions in restorative justice. Should we use a restorative approach to stop gendered and intergenerational harm? Or will bringing together those who have been harmed, those causing harm, and their supporters only incite more violence? Underlying these questions is a profound distrust of families and their cultural networks. This distrust has stalled turning away from carceral interventions that particularly harm minoritized communities. Moving forward in time, the volume identifies blocks to trusting families and their cultural networks and means of circumventing these blocks. The book offers a theory of feminist kin-making to comprehend the restorative process and gives practical guidance to restorative participants, practitioners, policy makers, and researchers.

Author : The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479808137

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Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies by The Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective Pdf

"This book deepens analyses of the relationships among race, gender, sexuality, nation, ability, and political economy by foregrounding justice-oriented intersectional movements and scholarship including: Black, Indigenous, and women of color feminisms; transnational feminisms; queer of color critique; trans, disability, and fat studies; feminist science studies; and critiques of the state, law, and prisons that emerge from within queer and women of color justice movements"--

Author : Keesha M. Middlemass,CalvinJohn Smiley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351138222

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Prisoner Reentry in the 21st Century by Keesha M. Middlemass,CalvinJohn Smiley Pdf

This groundbreaking edited volume evaluates prisoner reentry using a critical approach to demonstrate how the many issues surrounding reentry do not merely intersect but are in fact reinforcing and interdependent. The number of former incarcerated persons with a felony conviction living in the United States has grown significantly in the last decade, reaching into the millions. When men and women are released from prison, their journey encompasses a range of challenges that are unique to each individual, including physical and mental illnesses, substance abuse, gender identity, complicated family dynamics, the denial of rights, and the inability to voice their experiences about returning home. Although scholars focus on the obstacles former prisoners encounter and how to reduce recidivism rates, the main challenge of prisoner reentry is how multiple interdependent issues overlap in complex ways. By examining prisoner reentry from various critical perspectives, this volume depicts how the carceral continuum, from incarceration to reentry, negatively impacts individuals, families, and communities; how the criminal justice system extends different forms of social control that break social networks; and how the shifting nature of prisoner reentry has created new and complicated obstacles to those affected by the criminal justice system. This volume explores these realities with respect to a range of social, community, political, and policy issues that former incarcerated persons must navigate to successfully reenter society. A springboard for future critical research and policy discussions, this book will be of interest to U.S. and international researchers and practitioners interested in the topic of prisoner reentry, as well as graduate and upper-level undergraduate students concerned with contemporary issues in corrections, community-based corrections, critical issues in criminal justice, criminal justice policies, and reentry.

Author : Lisa D. Brush
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199875481

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Poverty, Battered Women, and Work in U.S. Public Policy by Lisa D. Brush Pdf

Drawing on longitudinal interviews, government records, and personal narratives, feminist sociologist Lisa Brush examines the intersection of work, welfare, and battering. Brush contrasts conventional wisdom with illuminating analyses of social change and social structures, highlighting how race and class shape women's experiences with poverty and abuse and how "domestic" violence moves out of the home and follows women to work. Brush's unique interview data on work-related control, abuse, and sabotage, together with administrative data on earnings, welfare, and restraining orders, offer new empirical insights on the impact of work requirements and other post-welfare rescission changes on the lives of low-income and battered mothers. Personal narratives provide first-hand accounts of women's perceptions of the broad forces that shape the circumstances of their everyday lives, their health, their prospects, their ambitions, and their diagnoses of their world. Deftly integrating the political and the personal, the administrative and the narrative, the economic and the emotional, Brush underscores the vital need to reexamine ideas, policies, and practices meant to keep women safe and economically productive that instead trap women in poverty and abuse. With her fresh approach to problems people often see as intractable, Brush offers a new way of calculating the costs of battering for the policy makers and practitioners concerned with the well being of poor, battered women and their families and communities.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309452960

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Communities in Action by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States Pdf

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Author : Aili Mari Tripp,Myra Marx Ferree,Christina Ewig
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814770207

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Gender, Violence, and Human Security by Aili Mari Tripp,Myra Marx Ferree,Christina Ewig Pdf

"A powerful argument... successfully challenges both security to address gender and feminist analysis to address security." - Sylvia Walby, author of New Agendas for Women

Author : Venezia Michalsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317228097

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Mothering and Desistance in Re-Entry by Venezia Michalsen Pdf

Although there is plentiful research on the impact of marriage, employment and the military on desistance from criminal behaviour in the lives of men, far less is known about the factors most important to women’s desistance. Imprisoned women are far more likely than their male counterparts to be the primary caretakers of children before their incarceration, and are far more likely to intend to reunify with their children upon their release from incarceration. This book focuses on the role of mothering in women’s desistance from criminal behaviour. Drawing on original research, this book explores the nature of mothering during incarceration, how mothers maintain a relationship with their children from behind bars and the ways in which mothering makes desistance more or less likely after incarceration. It outlines the ways in which race, gender, class, nationality, sexuality, gender identity, and other characteristics affect mothering and desistance, and explores the tensions between individual and system-level factors in the consideration of desistance. This book suggests that any discussion of desistance, particularly for women, must move beyond the traditional focus on individual characteristics and decision-making. Such a focus overlooks the role played by context and systems which undermine both women's attempts to be mothers and their attempts to desist. By contrast, in the tradition of Beth Richie’s Compelled to Crime, this book explores both the trees and the forests, and the quantum in-between, in a way that aims for lasting societal and individual changes.

Author : Derek M.D. Silva,Mathieu Deflem
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781801170017

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Diversity in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies by Derek M.D. Silva,Mathieu Deflem Pdf

This volume explores the theoretical and methodological maturity and diversity in reflexive accounts of criminology and criminal justice in a number of areas, such as and teaching and research in criminology, queer criminology, the intersections of race and gender, indigeneity and decolonization, domestic violence and human rights.

Author : Community Social Planning Council of Toronto,Punam Khosla
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Minority women
ISBN : 1894199073

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If Low Income Women of Colour Counted in Toronto : Final Report of the Action-Research Project Breaking Isolation, Getting Involved by Community Social Planning Council of Toronto,Punam Khosla Pdf