"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.
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