Color of Welfare How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty

Name: Color of Welfare How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty
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ISBN: 9780195101225

ISBN-10: 0195101227

ISBN-13: 9780195101225

Edition: 1996

Authors: Jill Quadagno

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From Reconstruction to Lyndon Johnson and beyond, Jill Quadagno reveals how American social policy has continuously foundered on issues of race. She draws on extensive primary research to show how social programmes became entwined with the civil rights movement and subsequently suffered by association at the hands of a white backlash.

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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/11/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 7.95" wide x 5.24" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Introduction: The Equal Opportunity Welfare State



Unfinished Democracy



Fostering Political Participation



Extending Equal Employment Opportunity



Abandoning the American Dream



The Politics of Welfare Reform



The Politics of Motherhood



Universal Principles in Social Security



Rebuilding the Welfare State



Explaining American Exceptionalism


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