Jill Quadagno
The color of welfare
- ISBN 13:
- 9780195101225
- author:
- Jill Quadagno
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 1996
- Pages:
- 264
- Genre:
- Social Sciences Family Sociology Textbook
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems. Jill Quadagno argues that racism has been at the heart of this failure, and that America's social policy has continually foundered on issues of race. Quadagno examines how American social policy has evolved from Reconstruction to Lyndon Johnson's "unconditional war on poverty", revealing how African Americans were excluded from core programs such as the Social Security Act. She shows how anti-poverty initiatives became entangled with the civil rights movement of the 1960s, triggering a white backlash that hindered their progress. This book provides a nuanced analysis of the complex relationship between racism and welfare reform in America, shedding light on the ongoing struggle to address poverty and inequality.
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