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In an updated new edition of this classic work, a team of highly
respected sociologists, political scientists, economists,
criminologists, and legal scholars scrutinize the resilience of
racial inequality in twenty-first-century America. Whitewashing
Race argues that contemporary racism manifests as discrimination in
nearly every realm of American life, and is further perpetuated by
failures to address the compounding effects of generations of
disinvestment. Police violence, mass incarceration of Black people,
employment and housing discrimination, economic deprivation, and
gross inequities in health care combine to deeply embed racial
inequality in American society and economy. Updated to include the
most recent evidence, including contemporary research on the
racially disparate effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, this edition
of Whitewashing Race analyzes the consequential and ongoing legacy
of "disaccumulation" for Black communities and lives. While some
progress has been made, the authors argue that real racial justice
can be achieved only if we actively attack and undo pervasive
structural racism and its legacies.
The American welfare state is often blamed for exacerbating
social problems confronting African Americans while failing to
improve their economic lot. Michael K. Brown contends that our
welfare system has in fact denied them the social provision it
gives white citizens while stigmatizing them as recipients of
government benefits for low income citizens. In his provocative
history of America's "safety net" from its origins in the New Deal
through much of its dismantling in the 1990s, Brown explains how
the forces of fiscal conservatism and racism combined to shape a
welfare state in which blacks are disproportionately excluded from
mainstream programs.
Brown describes how business and middle class opposition to
taxes and spending limited the scope of the Social Security Act and
work relief programs of the 1930s and the Great Society in the
1960s. These decisions produced a welfare state that relies heavily
on privately provided health and pension programs and cash benefits
for the poor. In a society characterized by pervasive racial
discrimination, this outcome, Michael Brown makes clear, has led to
a racially stratified welfare system: by denying African Americans
work, whites limited their access to private benefits as well as to
social security and other forms of social insurance, making welfare
their "main occupation." In his conclusion, Brown addresses the
implications of his argument for both conservative and liberal
critiques of the Great Society and for policies designed to remedy
inner-city poverty.
The American welfare state is often blamed for exacerbating
social problems confronting African Americans while failing to
improve their economic lot. Michael K. Brown contends that our
welfare system has in fact denied them the social provision it
gives white citizens while stigmatizing them as recipients of
government benefits for low income citizens. In his provocative
history of America's "safety net" from its origins in the New Deal
through much of its dismantling in the 1990s, Brown explains how
the forces of fiscal conservatism and racism combined to shape a
welfare state in which blacks are disproportionately excluded from
mainstream programs.
Brown describes how business and middle class opposition to
taxes and spending limited the scope of the Social Security Act and
work relief programs of the 1930s and the Great Society in the
1960s. These decisions produced a welfare state that relies heavily
on privately provided health and pension programs and cash benefits
for the poor. In a society characterized by pervasive racial
discrimination, this outcome, Michael Brown makes clear, has led to
a racially stratified welfare system: by denying African Americans
work, whites limited their access to private benefits as well as to
social security and other forms of social insurance, making welfare
their "main occupation." In his conclusion, Brown addresses the
implications of his argument for both conservative and liberal
critiques of the Great Society and for policies designed to remedy
inner-city poverty.
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