The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State

by Mary Poole

Book Overview

The relationship between welfare and racial inequality has long been understood as a fight between liberal and conservative forces. In The Segregated Origins of Social Security, Mary Poole challenges that basic assumption. Meticulously reconstructing the behind-the-scenes politicking that gave birth to the 1935 Social Security Act, Poole demonstrates that segregation was built into the very foundation of the welfare state because white policy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807856886
• ISBN13: 9780807856888
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.2"