Kenneth J. Neubeck

Background

Kenneth J. Neubeck was born in 1943.

Education

In 1964 Kenneth J. Neubeck received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the George Washington University. In 1968 he obtained a Master of Arts degree from this university. In 1972 Neubeck gained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Washington University.

Career

In 1964 Kenneth J. Neubeck was a research aide in the Office of Special Assistant to the Commissioner at the United States Office of Education, and Equal Educational Opportunities Program from 1964 to 1966. From 1966 to 1968 he served as a research assistant at the Bureau of Research. In 1968 Neubeck worked as an instructor in sociology at Washington University in St. Louis and a lecturer from 1968 to 1970.

Neubeck began as an instructor, then became an assistant professor, serving from 1971 to 1978, at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He was appointed an associate professor of sociology in 1978 and was a department associate head from 1986 to 1987, and has been a human rights minor director since 2001 there. From 1970 to 1971 he was a lecturer at the University of New Brunswick.

He has authored several books, including Corporate Response to Urban Crisis (1974), Social Problems: A Critical Approach (1979), Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America’s Poor (2001), Sociology: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender (2004), etc. He is a contributor to books, including, Impacts of Racism on White Americans (1981); Business Elites and Urban Development (1988); Lost Ground: Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Beyond (2002). He is also a contributor to periodicals, including, Poverty & Race and Social Problems.

In Welfare Racism, Neubeck and Cazenave analyze the effect racism has had on welfare policies in the United States. They discuss how it has become acceptable for politicians to discuss and consider race when establishing welfare policies. They note that the majority of the public unfairly believes that most people on welfare are black and that they are poor because they are lazy. The authors believe that this type of racism hurts everyone, not just people of color, and they offer suggestions on how to end it.

Achievements

• Kenneth J. Neubeck is best known as the co-author of Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America’s Poor. It has won awards such as the Michael Harrington Distinguished Scholarship Award from the National Forum on Poverty and Inequality and the Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association.

Works

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  • When Welfare Disappears: The Case for Economic Human Rights

    (This groundbreaking new book offers a history of welfare,...)

    2006
  • Social Problems: A Critical Approach

    (This text takes a critical approach to the analysis of 17...)

    1979
  • Sociology: Diversity, Conflict, and Change, with PowerWeb

    (This text offers students a lively, provocative introduct...)

    2004
  • Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America's Poor

    (Welfare Racism analyzes the impact of racism on US welfar...)

    2001
  • Corporate Response to Urban Crisis 1974

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Kenneth J. Neubeck is active in human rights work.

Membership

Kenneth J. Neubeck is a member of the American Sociological Association, the Eastern Sociological Society, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

References

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