Text Box: Brown Bag Lunch Series
Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Fall 2006 November 29th
Eloisa Gordon-Mora
Vice President, Government Affairs
Safe Horizon
Hunter College, Solarium Hunter East 1413 12-2:00pm
The Prison of the Body: The Intersections of Child Maltreatment and State
Controls in the Lives Poor Children of Color
The soul is the prison of the body.
Foucault
Introduction
This paper is part of a larger research project that seeks to problematize
the way the child welfare system in New York City, which is notorious for
its overrepresentation of poor children of color, is typically interpreted.
Characteristically, discussions on the child welfare system-and
particularly, as they refer to poor, black and Puerto Rican/Latino
families-'-both, in New York City and the Island-in recent years? 

 

 

 


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