Racial control and resistance among African Americans in the aftermath of the welfare reform act of 1996

Social Welfare Policy: Regulation and Resistance Among People of Color

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 91-111

  Schiele, Jerome H ^a   Gadsden, Ellarwee ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781452275185.n5     Document Type: Chapter

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