Publisher's Synopsis
- Explores the Policy-based roots of inequality in the US, helping students better understand why many of their clients are disadvantaged
- Achieves diversity focus of many social work schools
- Demonstrates the role of values, culture, power and ideology in shaping policy
- Wide-ranging focus on the relationship between social inequality and social policy
- Covers not just the typical areas of social policy analysis, but also the not so typical for social work, i.e., immigration/migration, housing segregation, and labor segregation and exclusion, all of which have had and have a profound effect on contemporary social arrangements and some groups' access to society's rewards and privileges.
- Uses critical race theory and structural oppression theoretical frameworks
- Challenges students to critically examine the historical roots of many of the social inequalities experienced by particular groups
