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TANF
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Temporary assistance for needy families
1. Created in 1996. Commonly referred to as welfare, or welfare reform. 2. Cash entitlement for families. a. If you met the rules or criteria then you would get money as long as you met the requirements 3. is run by individual states. 4. Work requirement: at least half if the states welfare rolls must be engaged in work activity at least 30 hours a week for a single parent (20 hours if child is under 6) 5. Time limit: federal ____monies may be given to people who have not been on welfare for the previous 5 years |
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Race
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created when white Europeans encountered different racial groups. They ought they were better than a particular group, hence race was born
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Ethnicity
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more about self identification and culture
a. Not inherently hierarchical |
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Jim Crow racism
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reified race. Happened in the 60s. The idea that whites should use one water fountain and blacks use another. It was about purity, whites wAnted to segregate theirselves from blacks
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Redlining
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a. Began in the 1940s
b. Prior to buying a house you needed 50% of the value up front c. Officials would redline areas on a map that they thought were not worthy of government loans i. Neighborhoods that were considered the worst by the accessors wee marked red ii. Neighborhoods of people of color were almost always in the worst (if not the worst), and you could not get a loan in that neighborhood The result of ___ was that people of color could not buy homes in the most affordable neighborhoods |
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Racially restrictive covenants
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1. The FHA recommend that properties be occupied by the same race and socioeconomic background. They used ___ to "protect" neighborhood from people of color.
2. Levitt towns: were designed nice. Gave a house to the prof grandpa. It had a ___ The result of ___ was that blacks (and most other people of color) could not buy homes in most middle class/white neighborhoods a. Average Americans' wealth lays in their homes |
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Sedimentation of racial inequality
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1. Generation after generation of poverty for blacks has "accumulated" and embedded inequality into the social structure
a. Discrimination adds up 2. White have been accumulating advantages. |
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White flight
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1. When blacks were able to move into suburbs whites moved out
2. When blacks moved into a neighborhood, property value decreases. Whites sell early to prevent their property from decreasing, and/or to avoid living near blacks. |
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White privilege
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the advantages white people experience simply because they are white.
a. Includes structural advantages b. You won't be incarcerated because of your race c. You can wander around a store with out being followed d. Can assume that a taxi will stop for you e. If you call a realtor they will actually tell you the truth f. Can move into any community without worrying your neighbors will dislike you |
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Sex
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based on anatomical (biological) differences
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Gender
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socially expected behaviors associated with sex
socially constructed, through actions and interactions, and over time and across cultures has varied tremendously a primary way of organizing social life. |
