A "welfare queen" is a derogatory term used in the United States to describe individuals who are perceived to misuse or abuse the welfare system, often...
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A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and...
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Cheri Honkala (section Kensington Welfare Rights Union)
Mark Webber. She was featured prominently in the 1997 book Myth of the Welfare Queen by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Zucchino. In 2011, Honkala...
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extensive welfare fraud and, after the publication of an article in the Chicago Tribune in fall 1974, became identified as the "welfare queen". Accounts...
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chicken in a legislative hall. The welfare queen stereotype depicts an African-American woman who defrauds the public welfare system to support herself, having...
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Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (redirect from Welfare-to-work)
the system as a "welfare trap" and pledged to "dismantle the welfare state". Ronald Reagan's oft-repeated story of a welfare queen from Chicago's South...
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racial appeals in blasts against welfare cheats. On the stump, Reagan repeatedly invoked a story of a "Chicago welfare queen" with "eighty names, thirty addresses...
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Camilla (born Camilla Rosemary Shand, later Parker Bowles, 17 July 1947) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms as the wife of...
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E.R. coalition. KWRU was written about in the 1997 book Myth of the Welfare Queen by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Zucchino. KWRU often used...
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programs by providing false information Welfare queen, a pejorative term for a person accused of collecting excess welfare payments This disambiguation page...
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a scene in which Scarlett O'Hara's slave Prissy, played by Butterfly McQueen, eats watermelon, which the actress refused to perform. Use of this stereotype...
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Hall of Fame. As an actress, she is best known for playing Tammé "The Welfare Queen" Dawson in the wrestling-themed Netflix original comedy series GLOW...
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child's life. Throughout the film there is not indication that Brenda is on welfare but nevertheless, she is a clear representation of a contemporary "baby...
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classism, and misogyny is the archetype of the welfare queen. Cathy Cohen describes how the welfare queen stereotype demonizes poor black single mothers...
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Working class Black women are depicted as the “Bad Black Mother”/”Welfare Queen” and the “Bitch” (materialistic and hyper sexual Black women within...
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woman that was dubbed by the Chicago Tribune and Ronald Reagan as a "welfare queen." The article, which explored Taylor's history of criminal acts, some...
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challenges her as Liberty Belle and is named the winner; only to have Welfare Queen steal the crown from Liberty Belle. Ruth asks Debbie to go out for a...
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Welfare reforms are changes in the operation of a given welfare system aimed at improving the efficiency, equity and administration of government assistance...
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doublespeak is problematic in the way prototypical dog whistles like welfare queen and family values are. Some, like backhanded compliments to political...
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Workfare (redirect from Work for welfare)
morphed into stereotypes such as the welfare queen that aimed to paint black, single mothers as abusers of the welfare system. This stereotype claimed that...
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Brian May (redirect from Brian May (Queen))
producer, animal welfare activist and astrophysicist. He achieved worldwide fame as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the rock band Queen, which he...
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265,000, nearly 30 times the presale estimate. On November 17, 2021, Welfare Queen (2012), sold for $3.9M in a Phillips New York auction and brought to...
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Fried chicken stereotype Magical Negro Mammy stereotype Video vixen Welfare queen Watermelon stereotype Caricatures Angelfood McSpade Bigger Hair Blackface...
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army of labour State Socialism (Germany) Welfare capitalism Welfare culture Welfare fraud Welfare queen Welfare's effect on poverty Clarke, Peter (19 November...
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of overlap between discourses of welfare dependency and the stereotype of the welfare queen, in that long-term welfare recipients are often seen as draining...
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a woman called Linda Taylor from Chicago, Illinois, calling her a "welfare queen" by making assumptions of earning such proportions from government benefits...
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Fried chicken stereotype Magical Negro Mammy stereotype Video vixen Welfare queen Watermelon stereotype Caricatures Angelfood McSpade Bigger Hair Blackface...
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women. Other artists such as Missy Elliott, Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu and Queen Latifah advocated being strong independent black women. Moreover, according...
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maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Witcover 1977, pp. 373–397 "'Welfare Queen' Becomes Issue in Reagan Campaign". The New York Times. 15 February...
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himself as nambawan pikinini bilong Misis Kwin (i.e. the first child of the Queen). In Nigerian as well as Cameroonian Pidgin English, the word pikin is used...
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