User:Heatherkong

Hello, my name is Heather Kong. I am an editor in the United States (from California and currently residing in Texas) interested in and hope to edit articles regarding community organizing, racial equity, urban planning, and health disparities. I have contributed to the "Gentrification" and "Gentrification in the United States" Wikipedia pages in the past.

WikiProjects I am a part of:

WikiProject Discrimination

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Black_Lives_Matter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Urban_studies_and_planning#Participants

WikiProject Sociology/Members

Homelessness in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Homelessness

I am hoping to add more about gentrification, criminalization, public attitudes, health, and efforts to help the homeless. There are some interesting discussions about some public spaces designed to be anti-homeless, such as park benches with bars in the middle to prevent people from sleeping on them. I also wanted to look more into the medicalization of homelessness and how that intersects with policy, practices, and stigma surrounding homelessness. I also may want to expand more on Housing First, either on this page directly or on the Housing First Wikipedia page to include information about other counties and include a discussion on mental health.

References

Novac, Sylvia, Joe Hermer, Emily Paradis, and Amber Kellen. "Justice and injustice: Homelessness, crime, victimization, and the criminal justice system." (2011).

Belcher, John R. "Are jails replacing the mental health system for the homeless mentally ill?." Community Mental Health Journal 24, no. 3 (1988): 185-195.

Yoder, Jamie Rae, Kimberly Bender, Sanna J. Thompson, Kristin M. Ferguson, and Badiah Haffejee. "Explaining homeless youths’ criminal justice interactions: Childhood trauma or surviving life on the streets?." Community mental health journal 50, no. 2 (2014): 135-144.

Hartwell, Stephanie. "Triple stigma: Persons with mental illness and substance abuse problems in the criminal justice system." Criminal Justice Policy Review 15, no. 1 (2004): 84-99.

Kidd, Sean A. "Youth homelessness and social stigma." Journal of youth and adolescence 36, no. 3 (2007): 291-299.

Belcher, John R., and Bruce R. DeForge. "Social stigma and homelessness: The limits of social change." Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 22, no. 8 (2012): 929-946.

Phelan, Jo, Bruce G. Link, Robert E. Moore, and Ann Stueve. "The stigma of homelessness: The impact of the label" homeless" on attitudes toward poor persons." Social psychology quarterly (1997): 323-337.

Rayburn, Rachel L., and Nicholas A. Guittar. "“This is where you are supposed to be”: How homeless individuals cope with stigma." Sociological Spectrum 33, no. 2 (2013): 159-174.

Mathieu, Arline. "The medicalization of homelessness and the theater of repression." Medical Anthropology Quarterly 7, no. 2 (1993): 170-184.

Lyon‐Callo, Vincent. "Medicalizing homelessness: the production of self‐blame and self‐governing within homeless shelters." Medical Anthropology Quarterly 14, no. 3 (2000): 328-345.

Petty, James. "The London spikes controversy: Homelessness, urban securitisation and the question of ‘hostile architecture’." International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy 5, no. 1 (2016): 67.

Mitchell, Don. "The annihilation of space by law: The roots and implications of anti‐homeless laws in the United States." Antipode 29, no. 3 (1997): 303-335.

Welfare Queen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Welfare_queen

This page is a Start Class article, so I hope to expand on the information already in the sections. I think that there could be more sections about intersectionality within this topic (about the intersection of class, gender, and race) and how it relates to welfare attitudes and policies regarding poverty. I also would like to explore the idea of adding a section on how the idea of a “welfare queen” affects reproductive justice and equity.

References

Kelly, Maura. "Regulating the reproduction and mothering of poor women: The controlling image of the welfare mother in television news coverage of welfare reform." Journal of Poverty 14, no. 1 (2010): 76-96.

Gilliam Jr, Franklin D. "The'welfare queen'experiment." Nieman Reports 53, no. 2 (1999): 49.

Gilman, Michele Estrin. "The return of the welfare queen." Am. UJ Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 22 (2013): 247.

Hancock, Ange-Marie. The politics of disgust: The public identity of the welfare queen. NYU Press, 2004.

Foster, Carly Hayden. "The welfare queen: Race, gender, class, and public opinion." Race, Gender & Class (2008): 162-179.

Nadasen, Premilla. "From widow to “welfare queen”: Welfare and the politics of race." Black Women, Gender & Families 1, no. 2 (2007): 52-77.

Dow, Dawn Marie. "Negotiating “the welfare queen” and “the strong Black woman” African American middle-class mothers’ work and family perspectives." Sociological Perspectives 58, no. 1 (2015): 36-55.

Rich, Camille Gear. "Reclaiming the Welfare Queen: Feminist and Critical Race Theory Alternatives to Existing Anti-Povert Discourse." S. Cal. Interdisc. LJ 25 (2016): 257.

Cammett, Ann. "Deadbeat dads & welfare queens: How metaphor shapes poverty law." BCJL & Soc. Just. 34 (2014): 233.

Champlin, Emily R. "The myth of the “welfare queen”: reproductive oppression in the welfare system." (2016).