Contents
Introduction / Joe Soss, Sanford F. Schram, and Richard C. Fording
History
1. Race and the Limits of Solidarity: American Welfare State Development in Comparative Perspective / Robert C. Lieberman
2. Ghettos, Fiscal Federalism, and Welfare Reform / Michael K. Brown
3. “Laboratories of Democracy” or Symbolic Politics?: The Racial Origins of Welfare Reform / Richard C. Fording
Mass Media and Mass Attitudes
4. How the Poor Became Black: The Racialization of American Poverty in the Mass Media / Martin Gilens
5. Race Matters: The Impact of News Coverage of Welfare Reform on Public Opinion / James M. Avery and Mark Peffley
6. Racial Context, Public Attitudes, and Welfare Effort in the American States / Martin Johnson
Discourse
7. Queens, Teens, and Model Mothers: Race, Gender, and the Discourse of Welfare Reform / Holloway Sparks
8. Putting a Black Face on Welfare: The Good and the Bad / Sanford F. Schram
Policy Choice and Implementation
9. The Hard Line and the Color Line: Race, Welfare, and the Roots of Get-Tough Reform / Joe Soss, Sanford F. Schram, Thomas P. Vartanian, and Erin O'Brien
10. 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
11. Race/Ethnicity and Referenda on Redistributive Health Care Policy / Caroline J. Tolbert and Gertrude A. Steuernagel
12. Racial/Ethnic Diversity and States’ Public Policies: Social Policies as Context for Welfare Policies / Rodney E. Hero
Commentary
13. Why Welfare Is Racist / Frances Fox Piven
References
Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index