Lieberman Shaping Race Policy

The United States in Comparative Perspective
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3746-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives

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 at incorporating African Americans and other minorities into the full benefits of citizenship. Robert Lieberman explores the historical roots of racial incorporation in these policy areas over the course of the twentieth century and explains both the relative success of antidiscrimination policy and the failure of the American welfare state to address racial inequality. He chronicles the rise and resilience of affirmative action, including commentary on the recent University of Michigan affirmative action cases decided by the Supreme Court. He also shows how nominally color-blind policies can have racially biased effects, and challenges the common wisdom that color-blind policies are morally and politically superior and that race-conscious policies are merely second best.

Shaping Race Policy has two innovative features that distinguish it from other works in the area. First, it is comparative, examining American developments alongside parallel histories of race policy in Great Britain and France. Second, its argument merges ideas and institutions, which are usually considered separate and competing factors, into a comprehensive and integrated explanatory approach. The book highlights the importance of two factors--America's distinctive political institutions and the characteristic American tension between race consciousness and color blindness--in accounting for the curious pattern of success and failure in American race policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lieberman, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix

LIST OF TABLES xi

PREFACE xiii

CHAPTER ONE: Configurations of Race and State: The Politics of Racial Incorporation 1

CHAPTER TWO: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism: Race and the Politics of Social Reform 27

CHAPTER THREE: The Roots of Welfare Incorporation 56

CHAPTER FOUR: Postwar Transformations of Race and State 75

CHAPTER FIVE: Encounters with the Welfare State: Social Security and Social Insurance 99

CHAPTER SIX: Encounters with the Welfare State: Public Assistance and "Welfare" 118

CHAPTER SEVEN: The Development of Employment Discrimination Policy 147

CHAPTER EIGHT: Weak State, Strong Policy: Paradoxes of Antidiscrimination Policy 174

CHAPTER NINE: Toward a Color-Blind Future: Varieties of Color Blindness and the Future of Race Policy 202

NOTES 225

INDEX 293

Über Autor(innen)

Robert C. Lieberman is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is the author of Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State.