The constraint of race

"American social policies have reproduced racial hierarchy and the American welfare state has been an instrument more often of social stratification than of social equality...The American construction of race has powerfully influenced political and social policy strategies--privileging whites, wreaking havoc upon people of color, rendering organized labor less powerful, and generating the least comprehensive, most laggard and segmented welfare state among all the advance industrialized democracies of the west." [Introduction].

Year

2003

Language

English

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press

Editions

1

Pages

429

ISBN

9780271025353

Data source: Wikidata