Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State

by Robert C. Lieberman

Book Overview

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.

Through Social Security and other social insurance programs, white workers were successfully integrated into a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674007115
• ISBN13: 9780674007116
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"