Three Worlds of Relief Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal

Name: Three Worlds of Relief Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
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ISBN: 9780691152240

ISBN-10: 0691152241

ISBN-13: 9780691152240

Edition: 2012

Authors: Cybelle Fox

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Three Worlds of Reliefexamines the role of race and immigration in the development of the American social welfare system by comparing how blacks, Mexicans, and European immigrants were treated by welfare policies during the Progressive Era and the New Deal. Taking readers from the turn of the twentieth century to the dark days of the Depression, Cybelle Fox finds that, despite rampant nativism, European immigrants received generous access to social welfare programs. The communities in which they lived invested heavily in relief. Social workers protected them from snooping immigration agents, and ensured that noncitizenship and illegal status did not prevent them from receiving the…

Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/20/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State



Three Worlds of Race, Labor, and Politics



Three Worlds of Relief



The Mexican Dependency Problem



No Beggar Spirit



Deporting the Unwelcome Visitors



Repatriating the Unassimilable Aliens



A Fair Deal or a Raw Deal?



The WPA and the (Short-Lived) Triumph of Nativism



A New Deal for the Alien



The Boundaries of Social Citizenship


Abbreviations in the Notes


Notes


Index