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Welfare racism : playing the race card against America's poor / Kenneth J. Neubeck, Noel A. Cazenave.
- Title
- Welfare racism : playing the race card against America's poor / Kenneth J. Neubeck, Noel A. Cazenave.
- Author
- Neubeck, Kenneth J.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 2001.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Cazenave, Noel A., 1948-
- Description
- x, 294 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Examines the role of racism in the early twentieth century through the New Deal. Explores the manipulation of racial stereotypes in 1960s battles over welfare in both the North and the South. Traces the racialized political backlash against welfare from the 1960s to the 1996 abolition of Aid to Families with Dependent Children. Examines this "welfare to work" legislation in terms of its race-control functions.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-282) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Seeing welfare racism -- 2. Conceptualizing "welfare racism" -- 3. Welfare racism in the early years of public assistance -- 4. Welfare racism as a defense against challenges to white supremacy -- 5. The demise of AFDC as a legacy of white racial backlash -- 6. Welfare reform as race population control -- 7. After AFDC and the return of states' rights-era welfare racism -- 8. Confronting welfare racism.
- ISBN
- 0415923409
- 0415923417 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^00068417^
- OCLC
- 45556212
- SCSB-10383617
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library