HIS374H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Welfare Queen, Neoliberalism, Welfare Fraud
Document Summary
The rise of neoliberalism at the end of the 1970s and its expansion under reagan. Identifying key examples of the neoliberal political program. Welfare queen becomes nexus of culture anxiety around debates over benefit redistribution. 1996, president clinton got rid of something called aids to children because people were cheating the program. George wallace and the politics of white self-interest: Offers explicityly segregationist alternative to white middle and working-class voters fed up with social protest. Basic message: social welfare state is ok for patriotic whites, but not okay for. Encourages anxiety of coloured people taking wealth or material items away from the white community. Many people were uncomfortable with wallace"s ideas and strategies. Nixon and the soft racism of the silent majority : Nixon claims to speak to ordinary, patriotic families exasperated with social turmoil. Employs southern strategy basically, george wallace lite . Use of coded language to signal opposition to integration and civil rights.
