Welfare Racism

<p><em>Welfare Racism</em> 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.</p> Chapter 1 Seeing Welfare Racism; Chapter 2 Conceptualizing “Welfare Racism”; Chapter 3 Welfare Racism in the Early Years of Public Assistance; Chapter 4 Welfare Racism as a Defense Against Challenges to White Supremacy; Chapter 5 The Demise of AFDC as a Legacy of White Racial Backlash; Chapter 6 Welfare Reform as Race Population Control; Chapter 7 After AFDC and the Return of States’ Rights-Era Welfare Racism; Chapter 8 Confronting Welfare Racism;