New History of Social Welfare, A (6th Edition) (MyHelpingKit Series) | 
 enlarge | Author: Phyllis J Day
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 6
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Pages: 560
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7 x 1.1
ISBN: 0205624154
Dewey Decimal Number: 361.610973
EAN: 9780205624157
ASIN: 0205624154
Publication Date: July 26, 2008
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 Who wrote this textbook? Marvel Comics? July 24, 2007
This text presents wildly-unsupportable views of revisionist history as objective fact. The author promotes a "one culture" view of indigenous American nations, which is more racist and ignorant than most spaghetti westerns. Likewise, Day is unable to distinguish between indigenous African cultures and ethnicities (hey, everybody, let's proclaim that ancient Egyptians were really dark-skinned Nubians, and that the countless volumes of visual records and representations left by the Egyptians themselves were just manufactured to confound far-future archaeologists). The downfall of the Mesoamerican empires is glibly explained away as a result of there being no large mammals in North America (?!), completely discounting the reality of the severe social problems of the region and time. It goes on and on. Every page presents me with some new atrocity, history bent (sometimes broken) to push a personal agenda that has little place in a textbook.
The use of this text in a classroom setting is questionable. Sifting accurate historical detail from the author's haze of speculation, misinformation, and political agenda makes the text vastly more trouble than it is worth.
All in all, I find the ubiquity of this text almost tragic. An understanding of social welfare is more important now than ever before. The rewriting of the history of social welfare to promote a feminist agenda does nothing to forward either of those important causes. Personally, I believe in both feminism and the need for meaningful social welfare programs.
I find myself at odds with the author of this text only in that I also believe in the truth.
 A Paradigm Shifting Text March 17, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The reviewer's comments from San Diego are not surprising. I had Dr. Day for two semesters of Social Policy in an MSW program. Her approach was provocative, challenging, and controversial. I witnessed some students storm out of the classroom in response to her lectures. This text will challenge the fundamental beliefs that students hold most treasured; especially the first chapter. This text is designed to get people thinking about the way we approach poverty as a whole. She's not telling people what to think but encouraging them to think. As a result some individuals will miss the point and experience tremendous difficulty with her text. With that in mind I would highly recommend this book. It provides the most comprehensive approaches to social welfare that I have seen yet.
I thought this book was junk. January 23, 2002
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book nearly cost me my MSW. Sure, the book adequately potrays social welfare policy from a historical perspective, but the writing is jumbled, confusing, repetitive, and Day writes with SUCH a liberal slant you begin to wonder wether she is writing a book or running a political party. Skip this book.
 review of Phyllis Day's revised social work history December 24, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Day has produced one of the best social welfare histories. It is up to date with current laws and practices. It also focuses on non-western and Third World origins of social welfare. That is a nice change from the usual focus on history. A good source for students, both graduate and undergraduate.
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