"When the Welfare People Come": Race and Class in the US Child Protection System by Don Lash

"When the Welfare People Come": Race and Class in the US Child Protection System

Don Lash

222 pages paperback 2017

2 editions

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Malcolm X, describing his childhood experience of "when the welfare people came" and introduced him to the US child protection system, called it "legal, modern slavery--however kindly intentioned." That shocking characterization obscures some of t...

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