Blaming the Victim by William Ryan

Blaming the Victim by William Ryan

The classic work that refutes the lies we tell ourselves about race, poverty and the poor.
Here are three myths about poverty in America:

- Minority children perform poorly in school because they are culturally deprived.
- African-Americans are handicapped by a family structure that is typically unstable and matriarchal.
- Poor people suffer from bad health because of ignorance and lack of interest in proper health care.

Blaming the Victim was the first book to identify these truisms as part of the system of denial that even the best-intentioned Americans have constructed around the unpalatable realities of race and class. Originally published in 1970, William Ryan's groundbreaking and exhaustively researched work challenges both liberal and conservative assumptions, serving up a devastating critique of the mindset that causes us to blame the poor for their poverty and the powerless for their powerlessness. More than twenty years later, it is even more meaningful for its diagnosis of the psychic underpinnings of racial and social injustice.

William Ryan is author of The Holy Thief, which was a Barry Award Nominee for Best First Novel and shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Born in London, Ryan attended Trinity College, Dublin and completed his Masters in Creative Writing at St. Andrews University.

READER BIO
With acting credits that span stage and screen, Gildart Jackson is most often recognized for his role as Gideon on Charmed.Theater roles include Trigorin in The Seagull, Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady, and Adrian in Private Eyes at the Old Globe.

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ISBN 13	9780394722269
ISBN 10	0394722264
Title	Blaming the Victim
Author	William Ryan
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1976-07-12
Number of pages	368
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