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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'Whites have long believed that most welfare recipients and most poor people are black. Such myths are so stereotyped, irrational, and off the mark that they cry out for deeper structural and cultural analysis-which is provided with great depth and thoroughness in this momentous book. Bravo to this first comprehensive analysis of welfare racism in the United States!' - Joe R. Feagin, Professor of Sociology, University of Florida, USA
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its racial/gender/class divisions played out before our very eyes on television as well as divisive commentaries on the racial/class impact on society by commentators, bloggers, and politicians. This book examines the racial/gender/class card played out by politicians, both left and right spectrums of the political ideology. How they used long-standing image of poor Black women with kids as a way to garner majority nonpoor voters who are tired of hearing Blacks' demands for greater equality in society. So they prefer listening to race and class-baiting politicians who promise law and order to the masses.
This book makes me thinks but it also makes me angry because as an affluent society, we failed to make sure that everyone has a place at the table. This is all I have to say right now.
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