The constraint of race
Subtitle: legacies of white skin privilege in America
By: Linda Faye Williams.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: University Park
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780271025353
Subjects: Welfare state -- United States -- History; Whites -- United States -- Race identity; Whites -- Civil rights -- United States -- History; Whites -- United States -- Social conditions; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History; African Americans -- Social conditions; United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects; United States -- Social policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: America's first undeserving and deserving poor : beneficiaries of the Freedmen's Bureau and Civil War veterans' pensions --; title: White security : the birth of the American welfare state --; title: Assault on white privilege : civil rights and the great society --; title: Path bends : retrenchment from Nixon to Reagan-Bush --; title: Racially charged policy making : crime and welfare reform in the Clinton years --; title: Addressing "America's constant curse" : the politics of civil rights in the Clinton years --; title: Whose welfare system is it anyway? : the three tracks of social citizenship and racial inequality --; title: "Problem of race" : American social policy at the dawn of a new century.