Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America's Poor

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Summary: An Excellent Expose on the Elite's
Review: use of the race card to divide poor people of all races as well as to demonize and permanently marginalize peoples of African descent in this country.

This book trace the origins of welfare racism, beginning with FDR's New Deal policies which help poor whites of all ethnicities while shunning blacks and other peoples of color such as American Indians(Indigenous Peoples) and Latino/as. Politicians use the image of a welfare mother, usually African American female as a way to garner white resentment as well as to preserve racial/gender ideologies. The more recent examples are the 1994 Proposition 187, which cuts illegal immigrants' right to use public assistance and the Personal Responsibiilty Act, which restricts poor people access to public funds such as welfare as well as to keep them off from them.

This book is the best expose on elites' use of race to keep people poor as well as to maintain the racial/gender status quo.