Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-282) and index.
Contents
1. Seeing welfare racism -- 2. Conceptualizing "welfare racism" -- 3. Welfare racism in the early years of public assistance -- 4. Welfare racism as a defense against challenges to white supremacy -- 5. The demise of AFDC as a legacy of white racial backlash -- 6. Welfare reform as race population control -- 7. After AFDC and the return of states' rights-era welfare racism -- 8. Confronting welfare racism.
Summary
A powerful expose of a deeply-rooted but woefully ignored form of racial blindness, Welfare Racism is an important first step toward more humane and rational policies for the men, women, and children who have been ravaged by the current system.