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Table of ContentsHistory -- Race and the limits of solidarity : American welfare state development in comparative perspective / Robert C. Lieberman -- Ghettos, fiscal federalism, and welfare reform / Michael K. Brown -- ""Laboratories of democracy"" or symbolic politics? :the racial origins of welfare reform / Richard C. Fording -- Mass media and mass attitudes -- How the poor became black : the racialization of American poverty in the mass media / Martin Gilens -- Race matters : the impact of news coverage of welfare reform on public opinion / James M. Avery and Mark Peffley -- Racial context, public attitudes, and welfare effort in the American states / Martin Johnson -- Discourse -- Queens, teens, and model mothers : race, gender, and the discourse of welfare reform / Holloway Sparks -- Putting a black face on welfare : the good and the bad / Sanford F. Schram -- Policy choice and implementation -- The hard line and the color line : race, welfare, and the roots of get-tough reform / Joe Soss ... [et al.] -- Contemporary approaches to enduring challenges : using performance measures to promote racial equality under TANF / Susan Tinsley Gooden -- Beyond welfare reform : race and social policy in the states -- Race/ethnicity and referenda on redistributive health care policy / Caroline J. Tolbert and Gertrude A. Steuernagel -- Racial/ethnic diversity and states' public policies : social policies as context for welfare policies / Rodney E. Hero -- Commentary -- Why welfare is racist / Frances Fox Piven.
