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25 S. Cal. Interdisc. L.J. 257 (2016)
Reclaiming the Welfare Queen: Feminist and Critical Race Theory Alternatives to Existing Anti-Povert Discourse

handle is hein.journals/scid25 and id is 261 raw text is: ARTICLES RECLAIMING THE WELFARE QUEEN: FEMINIST AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY ALTERNATIVES TO EXISTING ANTI-POVERTY DISCOURSE CAMILLE GEAR RICH* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ....................................................... 258 II. REFRAMING AND RECLAIMING THE WELFARE QUEEN .................................................................................. 2 6 4 A. HISTORICAL RELIC OR CURRENT REALITY? UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF THE WELFARE QUEEN ............................. 264 B. CHARTING A WAY FORWARD: RECLAIMING THE WELFARE Q U EEN ................................................................ 270 III. UNDERSTANDING THE WELFARE QUEEN: CONFERENCE PANELS AND DISCUSSIONS ............................................. 276 A. THE DISCIPLINARY POWER OF THE WELFARE QUEEN ......... 276 B. POVERTY, PRIVACY, AND REPRODUCTIVE LIBERTY ........... 278 C. WELFARE WORKFARE AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF POVERTY ............................................................. 280 * Associate Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law, Associate Provost of Student and Faculty Initiatives in the Social Sciences, and Director of PRISM, The Initative for the Study of Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Law. Many thanks to the USC Gould School of Law and the Dornsife Center for Feminist Research for providing conference funding and support, in particular Alice Echols and Sheila Briggs, Director and Acting Director of the Center, as well as Robert Rasmussen, Dean of the Gould School of Law. Also many thanks to the conference participants and attendees, with special thanks to Dorothy Roberts, Michele Goodwin, Kaaryn Gustafson, Ange-Marie Hancock, and Cheryl Harris for their encouragement and support as the conference developed. I am also indebted to the intrepid research assistants that helped me prepare these remarks, Dylan Bongfili, LaToya Council, Briana Jex, and Thomas Vu. Last, many thanks to Thomas Gleeson, Editor in Chief of the Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, and the many supporting editors on the journal for their interest in this project and their excellent stewardship of this volume memorializing the conference proceedings.

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