Inclusion and democracy.

The Racial Contract

Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty by Aihwa Ong

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.2307/3343529.pdf

Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work

by Linda Darling-Hammond, New York, NY, Teacher’s College Press, 2010, 394 pp., £20.91 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8077-4962-3 In The flat world and education: how America’s commitment to equity will d...

The flat world and education: how America’s commitment to equity will determine our future

Laclau and Mouffe: The Radical Democratic Imaginary is the first full-length overview of the important work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Anna Marie Smith clearly shows how Laclau and Mouffe's work has brought Gramscian, poststructuralist and psychoanalytic perspectives to revitalize traditional political theory. With clarity and insight, she shows how they have constructed a highly effective theory of identity formation and power relations that carefully draws from the criticism of political theory from postmodern anti-foundationalist political theory.

Laclau and Mouffe

Inspired by the political interventions of feminist women of color and Foucauldian social theory, Anna Marie Smith explores the scope and structure of the child support enforcement, family cap, marriage promotion, and abstinence education measures that are embedded within contemporary United States welfare policy. Presenting original legal research and drawing from historical sources, social theory, and normative frameworks, the author argues that these measures violate the rights of poor mothers. Drawing on several historical precedents the author shows that welfare policy has consistently constructed the sexual conduct of the racialized poor mother as one of its primary disciplinary targets. The book concludes with a vigorous and detailed critique of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's support for welfare reform law and an outline of a progressive feminist approach to poverty policy.

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Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation

The first book in the Cultural Margins series is a 1994 study of racism and homophobia in British politics, which demonstrates the demonisation of blacks, lesbians, and gays in New Right discourse. Anna Marie Smith develops theoretical insights from literary and cultural critics, including Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Hall, and Gilroy, to produce detailed readings of two key moments in New Right discourse: the speeches of Enoch Powell on black immigration (1968–72) and the legislative campaign of the late 1980s to prohibit the promotion of homosexuality. Her analysis challenges the silence on racism and homophobia in previous studies of Thatcherism and the New Right, and shows how demonisation of lesbians and gays depends on previous demonisations of black immigrant and criminal figures. Overall, this book offers a devastating critique of racism and homophobia in late twentieth-century Britain.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Ffr.1996.23.pdf

New Right discourse on race and sexuality : Britain, 1968-1990

An overview of the feminist theory literature on welfare policy and politics is presented. This introductory essay places a particular emphasis on the works that fall within the political sociology and normative political philosophy genres. In a lengthy digression, the article offers a tribute to the work of Iris Marion Young. It examines the centrality of her thinking about distribution, cultural marginalization, the welfare state bureaucracy, transnational responsibility and solidarity, and the pitfalls of maternalist discourse for this field. In the conclusion, the article makes brief remarks about each of the contributions to the special issue on Feminist Theory and Welfare.

Neoliberalism, welfare policy, and feminist theories of social justice Feminist Theory Special Issue: `Feminist Theory and Welfare'

Charles Mills' major text, The Racial Contract, is a radical liberal intervention in contractarian political philosophy. It argues that in the US today, the social contract ideologically (mis-)represents itself as a colorblind agreement that exemplifies our “post-racist” conditions. Mills holds that once we pierce the misrepresentations that characterize this legitimation discourse, we can see that the majority of whites tend to subscribe, either literally or implicitly, to a supplemental “racial contract.” Under its terms, most whites collude in hoarding sociopolitical resources and educational opportunities for themselves, while disavowing their concerted efforts and subscribing to a wide range of self-serving myths pertaining to the cultural inferiority of the so-called black “underclass.” In this sense, Mills predicts that a critical analysis of the basic structure will reveal systematic and deeply engrained forms of de facto racism throughout major institutions. Drawing on a wide variety of literatur...

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Laclau and Mouffe

Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation

New Right discourse on race and sexuality : Britain, 1968-1990

Neoliberalism, welfare policy, and feminist theories of social justice Feminist Theory Special Issue: `Feminist Theory and Welfare'

The Racial Contract, educational equity, and emancipatory ideological critique