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Race and the politics of welfare reform / edited by Sanford F. Schram, Joe Soss, and Richard C. Fording.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare--United States.
- Public welfare.
- Welfare recipients--Government policy--United States.
- Welfare recipients.
- Social service and race relations--United States.
- Social service and race relations.
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (391 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A searching and succinct restatement of the many ways race and American racial attitudes affect how we talk about the poor--and how we handle the problem of poverty relief.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Introduction / Joe Soss, Sanford F. Schram, and Richard C. Fording""; ""History""; ""1. Race and the Limits of Solidarity: American Welfare State Development in Comparative Perspective / Robert C. Lieberman""; ""2. Ghettos, Fiscal Federalism, and Welfare Reform / Michael K. Brown""; ""3. “Laboratories of Democracy� or Symbolic Politics?: The Racial Origins of Welfare Reform / Richard C. Fording""; ""Mass Media and Mass Attitudes""; ""4. How the Poor Became Black: The Racialization of American Poverty in the Mass Media / Martin Gilens""
- ""5. Race Matters: The Impact of News Coverage of Welfare Reform on Public Opinion / James M. Avery and Mark Peffley""""6. Racial Context, Public Attitudes, and Welfare Effort in the American States / Martin Johnson""; ""Discourse""; ""7. Queens, Teens, and Model Mothers: Race, Gender, and the Discourse of Welfare Reform / Holloway Sparks""; ""8. Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Good and the Bad / Sanford F. Schram""; ""Policy Choice and Implementation""
- ""9. The Hard Line and the Color Line: Race, Welfare, and the Roots of Get-Tough Reform / Joe Soss, Sanford F. Schram, Thomas P. Vartanian, and Erin O'Brien""""10. Contemporary Approaches to Enduring Challenges: Using Performance Measures to Promote Racial Equality under TANF / Susan Tinsley Gooden""; ""Beyond Welfare Reform: Race & Social Policy in the States""; ""11. Race/Ethnicity and Referenda on Redistributive Health Care Policy / Caroline J. Tolbert and Gertrude A. Steuernagel""
- ""12. Racial/Ethnic Diversity and States� Public Policies: Social Policies as Context for Welfare Policies / Rodney E. Hero""""Commentary""; ""13. Why Welfare Is Racist / Frances Fox Piven""; ""References""; ""Contributors""; ""Name Index""; ""Subject Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-368) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-472-09831-4
- 978-6-612-69574-2
- 1-282-69574-6
- 0-472-02551-1
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