The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty

by Jill Quadagno

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From Reconstruction to Lyndon Johnson and beyond, Jill Quadagno reveals how American social policy has continuously foundered on issues of race. She draws on extensive primary research to show how social programmes became entwined with the civil rights movement and subsequently suffered by association at the hands of a white backlash.
  • ISBN10 0195101227
  • ISBN13 9780195101225
  • Publish Date 13 June 1996 (first published 28 July 1994)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 272
  • Language English