Introduction -- To each her own: race and class in gendered coalitions -- Closing rank: power and colorblindness -- Pulling rank: gender and class colorblindness -- Breaking rank: race and class consciousness -- Crossing over: rethinking movement organization -- Critical alliances: intersecting national coalitions
Summary
Social justice activists in the United States face an increasingly difficult task: how do they fight policies based on damaging images of race, class and gender identities in an era of "colorblind" racism? Through the voices of women activists in the welfare rights movement across the United States, The Price of Progressive Politics exposes the contemporary reality of welfare rights politics, revealing how the language of colorblind racism undermines this multiracial movement. Rose Ernst argues that although many activists are well-meaning and truly committed, they nonetheless find themselves
