SOWK 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Critical Thinking, White Privilege, White Supremacy
19 Jun 2016
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The welfare state"s provision of social services and other forms of income assistance to. Canadian families sought to help preserve the family unit (except for the very poor and low-income single mothers). It thus promoted the social and symbolic value attached to these families . [this was not the case] with aboriginal families. In their case, warfare and welfare were clearly not oppositional systems. Indeed, welfare became the extension of warfare, and the manner of waging this war further exalted the nationals on its front lines as compassionate and caring (thobani, 2007, p. 124). Until the mid-twentieth century, white social reformers regarded the non-british. European immigrant family with considerable anxiety and reformist zeal. Attributing all manner of social problems to these families, reformers committed themselves to modernizing them into a north american ideal; that is, the patriarchal, nuclear, middle- class model that was to be the norm (thobani, 2007, p. 129).
