Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America's Poor - Hardcover

Neubeck, Kenneth J.; Cazenave, Noel A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415923409 ISBN 13: 9780415923408

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

Welfare Racism analyzes the impact of racism on US welfare policy. Through historical and present-day analysis, the authors show how race-based attitudes, policy making, and administrative policies have long had a negative impact on public assistance programs. The book adds an important and controversial voice to the current welfare debates surrounding the recent legilation that abolished the AFDC.

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About the Author:

Kenneth J. Neubeck is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut-Storrs. His articles have appeared in such journals as"Social Problems, Social Policy, " and "Teaching Sociology", as well as several anthologies. Much of his work has focused upon issues of social and economic justice, covering such topics as the politics surrounding income maintenance programs, cultural values supporting economic inequality, and the relationship between central city downtown developmental and local neighborhood decline. The author of "Corporate Response to Urban Crisis" (Lexington Books) and "Social Problems: A Critical Approach" (McGraw-Hill), he is currently conducting research on the impact of racism on U.S. welfare policy.

Cazenave is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut in Storrs.

From Booklist:

Kenneth J. Neubeck and coauthor Noel A. Cazenave, both sociology professors, argue that "racism shapes public assistance policies and practices." They examine the role of racism in the early twentieth century and state that "Mother's Pension" and other welfare programs established the pattern for the New Deal's Aid to Dependent Children program (ultimately, AFDC). Using case studies, they explore manipulation of racial stereotypes in 1960s battles over welfare in both the North and the South. The authors trace the racialized political backlash against welfare from the 1960s to the 1996 abolition of Aid to Families with Dependent Children and then examine this "welfare to work" legislation in terms of its race-control functions. Finally, the authors call for progressives to confront welfare racism and demand that government recognize its responsibility to mitigate the suffering of the poor. Mary Carroll
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About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0415923409
• ISBN 13: 9780415923408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304