Background
Ryan, William was born on September 20, 1923 in Everett, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William Joseph and Marion (Evans) Ryan.
(The classic work that refutes the lies we tell ourselves ...)
The classic work that refutes the lies we tell ourselves about race, poverty and the poorHere are three myths about poverty in America:– Minority children perform poorly in school because they are “culturally deprived.”– African-Americans are handicapped by a family structure that is typically unstable and matriarchal. – Poor people suffer from bad health because of ignorance and lack of interest in proper health care. Blaming the Victim was the first book to identify these truisms as part of the system of denial that even the best-intentioned Americans have constructed around the unpalatable realities of race and class. Originally published in 1970, William Ryan's groundbreaking and exhaustively researched work challenges both liberal and conservative assumptions, serving up a devastating critique of the mindset that causes us to blame the poor for their poverty and the powerless for their powerlessness. More than twenty years later, it is even more meaningful for its diagnosis of the psychic underpinnings of racial and social injustice.
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This book shows exactly how we blame the victims of poverty rather than the real villain of poverty rather than the real villain, the inequality of American society. An impassioned often brilliant expose of middle class ideology. In this wise and plainspoken book, William Ryan analyzes the warped logic that enables many well-meaning middle- class humanitarians to believe that it is the characteristics of the poor themselves that are the fundamental causes of poverty. To sustain this pernicious ideology, Americans- often encouraged by misguided social scientists- have adopted the elaborate network of rationalization, labeled her as "Blaming the Victim." Recognized in 1965 as a major critic of the Moynihan Report, Dr. Ryan now extends his criticism to expose our national habit of framing society's victims by distorting the harsh truths about the causes of their unequal condition. In compassionately exploring the motivation of those who embrace this ideology, Ryan is at the same time candid and unsparing in his dramatic demonstration of sparing in is dramatic demonstration of ways in which our most oppressed citizens are maligned by fashionable modern substitutes for old-fashioned prejudice, substitutes for old fashioned prejudice, masquerading in the form of such new mythologies as cultural deprivation. Poverty and racial injustice can be understood only if we re-examine and reject our most basic assumptions as they are defined by the jargon we've absorbed from the modern-day folklore of poverty. The truble is, according to Dr. Ryan, that Americans tend to prefer what he calls "exceptionalistic" slotuions, rather than insisting on "universalitic" Ones for example, we accept oral surgery for the few rather than demanding fluoridation for All. As a consequence, our social service systems are perpetually inadequate, and the will to repress those who would resist injustice presages even greater violence.
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psychologist educator and writer
Ryan, William was born on September 20, 1923 in Everett, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William Joseph and Marion (Evans) Ryan.
Doctor of Philosophy, Boston University, 1958.
Clinical and research positions, various organizations, Boston, 1952-1960; director Boston Mental Health survey, United Community Superior vena cava syndrome, Boston, 1961-1963; senior consultant in human services, Massachusetts Commision on Children and Youth, Boston, 1962-1966; lecturer in preventive medicine, Tufts Medical School, Boston, 1962-1966; research associate, Harvard University, Boston, 1962-1966; lecturer, Boston University School Social Work, 1965-1966; assistant, associate professor in psychiatry, Yale School Medicine, New Haven, 1966-1969; professor psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, since 1969. Consultant National Council Churches, Department Social Justice, 1965-1968, National Institute of Mental Health, 1968-1972, Massachusetts Department Public Welfare, 1970-1972, Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency, 1973-1975, Community Council Greater New York, 1975-1976, Routledge & Kegan Paul Publications, 1981-1983.
(The classic work that refutes the lies we tell ourselves ...)
(This book shows exactly how we blame the victims of pover...)
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Sergeant United States Air Force, 1942-1946.
Married Phyllis Milgroom, August 8, 1951. 1 child, Elizabeth Amy Yuengert.