Three worlds of relief : race, immigration, and the American welfare state from the Progressive Era to the New Deal

Three worlds of relief : race, immigration, and the American welfare state from the Progressive Era to the New Deal /

Three Worlds of Relief examines 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 athe New Deal. Taking readers from the turn of the twen...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Fox, Cybelle (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012
Series:Princeton studies in American politics.
Subjects:
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Immigrants > Government policy > United States > History > 20th century.
Welfare state > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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