Political and ideological processes shape popular images of minorities and policy interventions

Evidence

From the 1980s onwards more attention began to be directed at the role of political processes and institutions in the construction of racial and ethnic questions. Research at both the national and local political level has highlighted the changing political strategies and ideologies that have helped to shape policies on issues such as housing, employment, education, policing, and equal opportunity. This research has shown clearly that over the years political and ideological processes have played a very important role in the construction of popular images of minorities and in shaping the development of particular types of policy intervention. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2178

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2178
• XREF: connects to: Democratic social-justice programs reframed minority youth as investment opportunities. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 453