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Welfare racism : playing the race card against America's poor / Kenneth J. Neubeck, Noel A. Cazenave.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neubeck, Kenneth J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- Social service and race relations.
- Minorities--Government policy.
- Minorities.
- Welfare recipients--Government policy.
- Welfare recipients.
- United States.
- Welfare recipients--Government policy--United States.
- Minorities--Government policy--United States.
- Social service and race relations--United States.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- United States--Social policy--1993-.
- Local Subjects:
- United States--Social policy--1993-.
- Physical Description:
- x, 294 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2001.
- Summary:
- Welfare Racism is a comprehensive account of past and present attitudes toward welfare, and a powerful expose of a deeply-rooted form of racism. The authors draw a startling portrait of the racial privilege and discrimination often hidden in America's policies toward the poor.
- Contents:
- 1 Seeing Welfare Racism 1
- 2 Conceptualizing "Welfare Racism" 15
- 3 Welfare Racism in the Early Years of Public Assistance 39
- 4 Welfare Racism as a Defense Against Challenges to White Supremacy 67
- 5 The Demise of Afdc as a Legacy of White Racial Backlash 115
- 6 Welfare Reform as Race Population Control 145
- 7 After Afdc and the Return of States' Rights-Era Welfare Racism 177
- 8 Confronting Welfare Racism 215.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-282) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415923409
- 0415923417
- OCLC:
- 45556212
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