Three worlds of relief
Subtitle: race, immigration, and the American welfare state from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
By: Cybelle Fox
Series: Princeton studies in American politics: historical, international, and comparative perspectives
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9780691152233; 9780691152240
Subjects: Race relations; Government policy; Social conditions; Welfare state; Immigrants; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Race, immigration, and the American welfare state; title: Three worlds of race, labor, and politics; title: Three worlds of relief; title: The Mexican dependency problem; title: No beggar spirit; title: Deporting the unwelcome visitors; title: Repatriating the unassimilable aliens; title: A fair deal or a raw deal?; title: The WPA and the (short-lived) triumph of nativism; title: A new deal for the alien; title: The boundaries of social citizenship.