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The Study of Poverty Has a Long Connection to the History of Racism and Racial Knowledge

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2013

Authors

O'Connell, Anne

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Abstract

Social welfare policies are shaped by the way poverty has been viewed in history. When social policies today are studied in separation from studying the past, it erases their long connection to race and the impact on women’s bodies.

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History, Race and Racism, Poverty, Labour

Citation

O’Connell, A. (2010). A genealogy of poverty: Race and the technology of population. Critical Social Work, 11(2), 29-43.