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FROM CIVIL RIGHTS TO MULTICULTURALISM AND WELFARE FOR IMMIGRANTS: An Egalitarian Tradition Across the American States?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2007

Rodney E. Hero  and
Robert R. Preuhs
Rodney E. Hero
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Robert R. Preuhs
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Colorado
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Abstract

A succession of policies aimed at inclusion and accommodation of racial and ethnic groups in the United States is tied together by scholars who assert that the last forty years witnessed a broad “Minority Rights Revolution.” Nevertheless, subnational policies addressing racial, ethnic, and cultural minorities vary greatly and hardly resemble a uniform orientation; this variation provides compelling reasons as well as an analytical opportunity to explore the relationship between policies considered part of the minority rights transformation. Using state civil rights policies from the 1960s as a proxy, we find that an egalitarian tradition within states consistently explains the variation in contemporary multicultural policies and policies regarding immigrant access to social welfare benefits.This research was funded in part by a grant from the Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences at the University of Colorado. The authors would like to thank Andrew Thangasamy for his research assistance.

Keywords

Racial and Ethnic PoliticsCivil RightsImmigrationMulticulturalismState Politics
Type
STATE OF THE ART
Information
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , September 2006 , pp. 317 - 340
Copyright
© 2006 W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research

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