The constraint of race : legacies of white skin privilege in America /

The constraint of race : legacies of white skin privilege in America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Linda F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2003]
Subjects:
Welfare state > United States > History.
Whites > Race identity > United States.
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.
Table of Contents:
  • America's first undeserving and deserving poor : beneficiaries of the Freedmen's Bureau and Civil War veterans' pensions
  • White security : the birth of the American welfare state
  • An assault on white privilege : civil rights and the great society
  • The path bends : retrenchment from Nixon to Reagan-Bush
  • Racially charged policy making : crime and welfare reform in the Clinton years
  • Addressing "America's constant curse" : the politics of civil rights in the Clinton years
  • Whose welfare system is it anyway? : the three tracks of social citizenship and racial inequality
  • "The problem of race" : American social policy at the dawn of a new century.