Race-Ing the bootstrap climb: Black and latino bureaucrats in post-reform welfare offices

Social Problems

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 285-310

  Watkins Hayes, Celeste ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African Americans; Intersectionality; Latinos; Organizations; Welfare offices

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449179535     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: 15338533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2009.56.2.285     Document Type: Article

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