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Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal : Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal by Cybelle Fox; Ira Katznelson; Martin Shefter; Theda Skocpol; American Council of Learned Societies is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book 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 twentieth century to the dark days of the Depression, the book 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 assistance they needed. But that same helping hand was not extended to Mexicans and blacks. The book reveals, for example, how blacks were relegated to racist and degrading public assistance programs, while Mexicans who asked for assistance were deported with the help of the very social workers they turned to for aid. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, the book paints a riveting portrait of how race, labor, and politics combined to create three starkly different worlds of relief. It debunks the myth that white Am

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Author

Cybelle Fox; Ira Katznelson; Martin Shefter; Theda Skocpol; American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400842582

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Political Science, Social Science