United States - Ethnic & Race Relations, Social Policy by Region, Labor Policies, Welfare - Service & Policies, Ethnic & Minority Studies - General & Miscellaneous, African Americans - Law, Politics, & Government
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Overview
In Shaping Race Policy, Robert Lieberman 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. Shaping Race Policy is comparative, covering American developments alongside parallel histories of race policy in Great Britain and France. Focusing on two key policy areas, welfare and employment, Lieberman asks why America has had such uneven success at incorporating African Americans and other minorities into the full benefits of citizenship. He 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 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 to raceconscious policies. 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.About the Author:
Robert C. Lieberman is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs at Columbia University
Editorials
Ethics and International Affairs
Lieberman's book is well worth reading-and debating. . . . [T]his book sets its sights on a big, interesting question and tackles it. . . . It is a book that should open up significant space for debate and for future research.
— Erik Bleich
Ethnic and Racial Studies
This is a deep, wide, valuable book that demonstrably advances research in racial politics, comparative public policy, and the social science analysis of political history. That is an impressive achievement for one volume.
— Jennifer L. Hochschild
Ethics & International Affairs
Lieberman's book is well worth reading-and debating. . . . [T]his book sets its sights on a big, interesting question and tackles it. . . . It is a book that should open up significant space for debate and for future research.Ethnic & Racial Studies
This is a deep, wide, valuable book that demonstrably advances research in racial politics, comparative public policy, and the social science analysis of political history. That is an impressive achievement for one volume.Ethics & International Affairs
Lieberman's book is well worth reading-and debating. . . . [T]his book sets its sights on a big, interesting question and tackles it. . . . It is a book that should open up significant space for debate and for future research.— Erik Bleich
Ethnic & Racial Studies
This is a deep, wide, valuable book that demonstrably advances research in racial politics, comparative public policy, and the social science analysis of political history. That is an impressive achievement for one volume.— Jennifer L. Hochschild
Book Details
Published
July 5, 2005
Publisher
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.
Pages
336
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780691118178