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The Dual Agenda - Race and Social Welfare Policies of Civil Rights Organizations (Paperback, Revised)
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The Dual Agenda - Race and Social Welfare Policies of Civil Rights Organizations (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Power, Conflict, and Democracy: American Politics Into the 21st Century
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What is the role of race in social policy? Have race-based
programmes failed? Should welfare and civil rights be blind to
colour? In this landmark book, two leading scholars challenge
critics like William Julius Wilson and Theda Skocpol who seek to
replace a "race-specific" agenda for African-Americans with
class-neutral programmes. Dona Cooper Hamilton and Charles V.
Hamilton transform our understanding of the history of civil
rights. From the New Deal to the 1990s, they demonstrate the many
ways in which the civil rights movement fought not only to end
racial segregation and discrimination but also to support social
and economic justice for all Americans. Drawing on an unprecedented
range of data, the Hamiltons describe the complex connections
between race and class that have marked American social reform
since the beginning of the welfare state. They reveal an aspect of
the civil rights struggle which has been too long overlooked or
obscured - one that has fought for policies to expand social and
economic welfare for blacks and whites alike. From the NRA and WPA
to the Great Society and the War on Poverty, from the NAACP,
National Urban League and the Congressional Black Caucus to A.
Philip Randolph, Marian Wright Edelman and the Children's Defense
Fund and many others, the Hamiltons chart the changing strategies
and describe the often fierce battles that civil rights groups
fought over this "dual agenda". Decade by decade, they demonstrate
how the movement for African-American civil rights has always
included economic and social welfare reform for everyone. "The Dual
Agenda" is not only an indispensable new history of modern America,
it is also a powerful critique of conventional wisdom of the left
and right about the supposed failure of civil rights organizations
to pay attention to "universal" social welfare policies. At a time
of severe political retrenchment, either from the Republican right
or the Democratic centre, the Hamiltons remind us, as the nation
grapples with a major new welfare reform law, that the
African-American struggle for civil rights has always been bound to
the American ideal of equality and security for all.
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