Race and the politics of welfare reform [electronic resource] / edited by Sanford F. Schram, Joe Soss, and Richard C. Fording.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-368) and index.

HISTORY -- Race and the limits of solidarity : American welfare state development in comparative perspective / Robert C. Lieberman -- Ghettos, fiscal federalism, and welfare reform / Michael K. Brown -- "Laboratories of democracy" or symbolic politics? : the racial origins of welfare reform / Richard C. Fording -- MASS MEDIA AND MASS ATTITUDES -- How the poor became Black : the racialization of American poverty in the mass media / Martin Gilens -- Race matters : the impact of news coverage of welfare reform on public opinion / James M. Avery and Mark Peffley -- Racial context, public attitudes, and welfare effort in the American states / Martin Johnson -- DISCOURSE -- Queens, teens, and model mothers : race, gender, and the discourse of welfare reform / Holloway Sparks -- Putting a Black face on welfare : the good and the bad / Sanford F. Schram -- POLICY CHOICE AND IMPLEMENTATION -- Hard line and the color line : race, welfare, and the roots of get-tough reform / Joe Soss ... [et al.] -- Contemporary approaches to enduring challenges : using performance measures to promote racial equality under TANF / Susan Tinsley Gooden -- BEYOND WELFARE REFORM : RACE & SOCIAL POLICY IN THE STATES -- Race/ethnicity and referenda on redistributive health care policy / Caroline J. Tolbert and Gertrude A. Steuernagel -- Racial/ethnic diversity and states' public policies : social policies as context for welfare policies / Rodney E. Hero -- COMMENTARY -- Why welfare is racist / Frances Fox Piven.

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