Deborah E. Ward, "The White Welfare State: The Racialization of U.S. Welfare Policy"
English | ISBN 10: 0472030957 | 2005 | PDF | 208 pages | 6,3 MB
The White Welfare State challenges common misconceptions of the development of U.S. welfare policy. Arguing that race has always been central to welfare policy-making in the United States, Deborah Ward breaks new ground by showing that the Mothers' Pensions–the Progressive-Era precursors to modern welfare programs–were premised on a policy of racial discrimination against blacks and other minorities.