Three Worlds of Relief : : Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal / / Cybelle Fox.

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 the New Deal. Taking readers from the turn of the twent...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG and UP eBook Package 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ; 130
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 1 halftone. 11 line illus. 5 tables. 2 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter 1. Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State
  • Chapter 2. Three Worlds of Race, Labor, and Politics
  • Chapter 3. Three Worlds of Relief
  • Chapter 4. The Mexican Dependency Problem
  • Chapter 5. No Beggar Spirit
  • Chapter 6. Deporting the Unwelcome Visitors
  • Chapter 7. Repatriating the Unassimilable Aliens
  • Chapter 8. A Fair Deal or a Raw Deal?
  • Chapter 9. The WPA and the (Short-Lived) Triumph of Nativism
  • Chapter 10. A New Deal for the Alien
  • Chapter 11. The Boundaries of Social Citizenship
  • Abbreviations in the Notes
  • Notes
  • Index