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• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Latinas on the Fault Lines of Citizenship
• PART I Neither a Hand Up nor a Handout
• 1 Ending Welfare: New Nativism and the Triumph of Post–Civil Rights Politics
• 2 Poverty in the Suburbs: Race and Redevelopment Policy in Long Beach
• PART II Any Job at Any Wage
• 3 Tough Love in L.A. County: The Failure of Welfare-to-Work
• 4 The Myth of Welfare Dependency: Caught between Welfare and Work
• 5 “It’s Not What You Choose, but Where They Send You”: Inside Personal Responsibility
• Conclusion: The Emperor’s New Welfare: Reassessing the “Success” of Welfare Reform
• Notes
• Index
• About the Authors