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Author Williams, Linda F.

Title The constraint of race : legacies of white skin privilege in America / Linda Faye Williams.

Publication Info. University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2003]
©2003

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 Moore Stacks  E185.61 .W7365 2003    Available  ---
Description xiii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Welfare state -- United States -- History.
Welfare state.
United States.
History.
White people -- Race identity -- United States.
White people -- Race identity.
White people -- Civil rights -- United States -- History.
White people.
Civil rights.
White people -- United States -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
United States -- Race relations -- Political aspects.
Race relations.
United States -- Social policy.
Social policy.
ISBN 0271022531 hardcover acid-free