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Tell it Like it is
Mary E. Triece
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Description for Tell it Like it is
Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 413.
In Tell It Like It Is, Mary E. Triece brings to light a lesser known yet influential social movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s—the welfare rights movement, led and run largely by poor black mothers in the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). Her study combines theory and critical analysis to explore rhetorical strategies and direct actions women employed as they argued for fair welfare legislation in both formal policy debates and in the streets. Triece focuses on how welfare recipients spoke for themselves in forums often marked by widely held stereotypes.
Triece explains the influence of racism ... Read more
In Tell It Like It Is, Mary E. Triece brings to light a lesser known yet influential social movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s—the welfare rights movement, led and run largely by poor black mothers in the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO). Her study combines theory and critical analysis to explore rhetorical strategies and direct actions women employed as they argued for fair welfare legislation in both formal policy debates and in the streets. Triece focuses on how welfare recipients spoke for themselves in forums often marked by widely held stereotypes.
Triece explains the influence of racism ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781611171532
SKU
V9781611171532
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Ref
99-3
About Mary E. Triece
Mary E. Triece is a professor in the School of Communication at the University of Akron, USA. She is the author of Protest and Popular Culture: Women in the U.S. Labor Movement, 1894–1917 and On the Picket Line: Strategies of Working-Class Women during the Depression, winner of the Bonnie Ritter Book Award. Triece has also published in Critical Studies in ... Read more
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