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By Deborah E. Ward
The White Welfare country demanding situations universal misconceptions of the advance of U.S. welfare coverage. Arguing that race has regularly been vital to welfare policy-making within the usa, Deborah Ward breaks new floor through displaying that the moms' Pensions--the Progressive-Era precursors to fashionable welfare programs--were premised on a coverage of racial discrimination opposed to blacks and different minorities. Ward's rigorous and carefully documented research demonstrates that the production and implementation of the moms' pensions software used to be pushed via debates approximately who "deserved" social welfare and never who wanted it the most."In The White Welfare country, Deborah Ward assembles a strong array of documentary and statistical facts to bare the mechanisms, centrality, and deep old continuity of racial exclusion in sleek 'welfare' provision within the usa. Bringing unprecedented scrutiny to the provisions and implementation of state-level moms' pensions, she argues persuasively that racialized styles of welfare management have been firmly entrenched during this revolutionary period laws, purely to be followed and strengthened within the New Deal welfare kingdom. With rigorous and clear-eyed research, she pushes us to confront the singular function of race in welfare's improvement, from its early 20th-century origins to its reputable death at century's end."--Alice O'Connor, college of California at Santa Barbara"This is a richly informative and arresting paintings. The White Welfare kingdom will strength a reevaluation of the position racism has performed as a basic characteristic in even the main innovative gains of the yankee welfare kingdom. Written elegantly, this e-book will galvanize a wide-ranging dialogue between social scientists, historians, and scholars of public policy."--Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political technological know-how and heritage, Columbia University"This publication deals an unique and soaking up account of early regulations that formed the process the yankee welfare kingdom. It extends but demanding situations extant interpretations and expands our figuring out of the interconnections of race and sophistication matters within the united states, and American political improvement extra broadly."--Rodney Hero, college of Notre Dame
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Race is thus inextricably woven into the history of the southern primary process. The one-party system enabled the South to prevent northern interven tion in the region's existing racial balance. The south was unified in na tional politics, thereby eliminating the possibility that divisive issues being raised in national campaigns would be raised in the South. Since there was no forum for these divisive issues, especially race issues, in state and local politics, Republicans were denied the opportunity to effectively Political & Social Context of Mothers' Pensions 2I challenge the Democratic incumbents.
Moreover, the responsibility of child rearing passed from the father to the mother. The for1nation of a child's character beca1ne the pri1nary goal of socialization within the family. Many reformers concluded that even a poor home was better than an institution. Women were seen as having the natural capac ity to provide the nurturing necessary for children's appropriate upbring ing. The idea that women's primary role was to raise children slowly ex tended from the middle and upper classes to the working classes.
The n1others' pension n1oven1ent both reflected and reinforced the prevailing race and class structures. Existing support for mothers' pensions was based on gender, racial, and class distinctions. The mothers' pension movement had its inception in the need to pro tect poor families from separation and institutionalization. Prevailing so cial policy at the turn of the twentieth century called for the dissolution of impoverished families, particularly one-parent families headed by mothers. In 1900, 9 percent of all children lived with j ust one parent; the maj ority of single-parent children lived with their mothers.