Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t8hqh Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-30T23:58:24.676Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The White Welfare State: The Racialization of U.S. Welfare Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2007

Kaaryn Gustafson
Kaaryn Gustafson
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut School of Law
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The White Welfare State: The Racialization of U.S. Welfare Policy. By Deborah E. Ward. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 208p. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.

A growing literature (including works by Kenneth Neubeck, Noel Cazenave, Gwendolyn Mink, Jill Quadagno, Sanford Schram, Joe Soss, Richard Fording, and Martin Gilens) examines the racialization of welfare policies, welfare administration, and welfare politics. Deborah Ward's book contributes nicely to that literature. The contributors to this literature prove to be an interdisciplinary group and include scholars from history, policy studies, political science, and sociology. Ward's book offers insight to readers from all those fields, although policy-oriented readers may find they seek more analysis, or at least a broader discussion of the implications of the research.

Type
BOOK REVIEWS: AMERICAN POLITICS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 180 - 181
Copyright
© 2007 American Political Science Association

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)