The classic work that refutes the lies we tell ourselves about race, poverty and the poor. Here are three myths about poverty in America: – Minority children perform poorly in school because they are “culturally deprived.” – African-Americans are handicapped by a family structure that is typically unstable and matriarchal. – Poor people suffer from bad health because of ignorance and lack of interest in proper health care. Blaming the Victim was the first book to identify these truisms as part of the system of denial that even the best-intentioned Americans have constructed around the unpalatable realities of race and class. Originally published in 1970, William Ryan's groundbreaking and exhaustively researched work challenges both liberal and conservative assumptions, serving up a devastating critique of the mindset that causes us to blame the poor for their poverty and the powerless for their powerlessness. More than twenty years later, it is even more meaningful for its diagnosis of the psychic underpinnings of racial and social injustice.

Includes material on education, illegitimacy, health care, housing, criminal justice, repression, and reform.

She asked for it. She was flirting. She was drinking. She was wearing a revealing dress. She was too confident. She walked home alone. She stayed in that relationship. She was naïve. She didn't report soon enough. She didn't fight back. She wanted it. She lied about it. She comes from a bad area. She was vulnerable. She should have known. Victim blaming of women is prevalent and normalised in society. What causes us to blame women who have been abused, raped, trafficked, assaulted or harassed by men? Why are we uncomfortable with placing all of the blame on perpetrators for their crimes against women? Based on three years of doctoral research and ten years of practice with women and girls, Dr Jessica Taylor explores the many reasons we blame women for male violence committed against them. Written in her unique style and backed up by decades of evidence, this book exposes the powerful forces in society and individual psychology which compel us to blame women subjected to male violence.

This work looks at the topic of victimisation and blame as a pathology for our time, and its consequences for personal responsibility.

Dorven Marc Forest lived in the United States for 25 years. After being stunned by a fortuitous coincidence that made him a millionaire, he was informed that he had the AIDS virus. Condemned to live with this fate, he became a calm and deliberate madman and acted accordingly. Returned to Haiti, his forgotten homeland, he will accomplish his sadistic mission of infecting a legion of young girls around Port-au-Prince. Upon his arrival at Toussaint Louverture International Airport, he met the splendid Adlina who accept his friendship. Will she be a targeted victim to be sacrifi ced on the altar of horror? The arrival of Lopold in her life will provide the answer to that, on behalf of Gods grace in human being; the power of love defying the impossible. In the melee, the origin of the AIDS, the virus produced at the Fort Detrick Laboratories, is revealed.