Race, Money, and the American Welfare State / / Michael E. Brown.

The American welfare state is often blamed for exacerbating social problems confronting African Americans while failing to improve their economic lot. Michael K. Brown contends that our welfare system has in fact denied them the social provision it gives white citizens while stigmatizing them as rec...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1999
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 17 tables, 9 charts/graphs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Note on Sources
  • Abbreviations Used in the Text
  • Introduction: Race and Money in the American Welfare State
  • PART ONE. THE ANTINOMIES OF RACE AND CLASS IN THE NEW DEAL
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Policy Settlement of 1935
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Origins of a Racially Stratified Welfare State
  • PART II. THE EMERGENCE OF TRUNCATED UNIVERSALISM
  • CHAPTER THREE. Stacking the Deck: The Truncation of Universalism, 1939-1950
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Bargaining for Social Rights: Unions and the Reemergence of Welfare Capitalism
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Color of Truncated Universalism
  • PART III. REINVENTING THE NEW DEAL
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Political and Economic Origins of the Great Society
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Building a Redistributive State
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. "To Fulfill These Rights"
  • PART IV. BEYOND THE GREAT SOCIETY
  • CHAPTER NINE. Remaking the Great Society: Nixon's Gambit
  • CHAPTER TEN. The Ghetto in the Welfare State: Race, Gender, and Class after the Great Society
  • PART V. THE PAST AND FUTURE OF AMERICAN SOCIAL POLICY
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Welfare State and Democracy in America
  • Index