Shifting the Color Line

Shifting the Color Line

Race and the American Welfare State

by Robert C. Lieberman

306 pages· 2001· ISBN 9780674007116
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"Shifting the Color Line" explores the historical and political roots of racial conflict in American welfare policy, beginning with the New Deal. Robert Lieberman demonstrates how racial distinctions were built into the very structure of the American welfare state.

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