Shaping Race Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective

by Robert C. Lieberman

Book Overview

Shaping Race Policy investigates one of the most serious policy challenges facing the United States today: the stubborn persistence of racial inequality in the post-civil rights era. Unlike other books on the topic, it is comparative, examining American developments alongside parallel histories of race policy in Great Britain and France. Focusing on on two key policy areas, welfare and employment, the book asks why America has had such uneven success...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691118175
• ISBN13: 9780691118178
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"