1. Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness
... ." This term, "welfare queen", became a code for "lazy, greedy, black ghetto mother." The food stamp program, in turn, was a vehicle to let "some fellow ahead of you buy a T-bone steak" while "you were standing in a checkout line with your package of hamburger." These highly racialized appeals targeted poor and working-class whites ... the media. The media frequently focused on communities devastated by deindustrialization and unemployment. The impact of globalization and deindustrialization was seen mainly in black inner-city communities. According William Julius Wilson, in his book Whe...
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