Shifting the color line
Subtitle: race and the American welfare state
By: Robert C. Lieberman.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: African Americans -- Politics and government; African Americans -- Economic conditions; Public welfare -- United States; United States -- Social policy -- 1993-; United States -- Race relations
Description: Despite the substantial economic and political strides that African-Americans have made in this century, welfare remains an issue that sharply divides Americans by race. Shifting the Color Line explores the historical and political roots of enduring racial conflict in American welfare policy, beginning with the New Deal.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-300) and index.