From Builders to Their Tools: Crafting 'Poverty Knowledge' from the "Moynihan Report" to Today

Autor/inn/en	Stephens, Rachael; Zhang, Michelle
Titel	From Builders to Their Tools: Crafting 'Poverty Knowledge' from the "Moynihan Report" to Today
Quelle	In: Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 14 (2020) 2, S.87-95 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1559-5692
DOI	10.1080/15595692.2020.1738111
Schlagwörter	Poverty; Social Problems; Social Differences; Cultural Influences; Social Theories; Racial Bias; Social Justice; Attribution Theory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Armut; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Sozialer Unterschied; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Gesellschaftstheorie; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Abstract	Critics often cite the "Moynihan Report" to illustrate how cultural diagnoses of poverty blame the victims and ignore the structural roots of inequality. This paper considers how the tendency to attribute such dangerous analyses to researchers' individual shortcomings leaves the underlying analytical elements that generate cultural diagnoses. Rather than focus on those who build "poverty knowledge," we advocate for more attention to the analytical tools that continue to encourage cultural diagnoses today. We use the "Moynihan Report" as a mirror in which we can see how static theories of culture and atomistic units of analysis encourage cultural diagnoses. They obscure the ongoing, collective work of reproducing inequality, including the work of race-making and racialization which help sustain economic exploitation, making it dangerously easy to locate blame and responsibility on particular persons or groups of persons. Transgressing the roots of inequity requires a relentless confrontation with these analytical tools. (As Provided).
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