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Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal (Princeton Studies in American ... International, and Comparative Perspectives) by Cybelle Fox; Ira Katznelson; Martin Shefter; Theda Skocpol; American Council of Learned Societies is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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 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 assistance they needed. But that same helping hand was not extended to Mexicans and blacks. Fox 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, Fox paints a riveting portrait of how race, labor, and politics combined to create three starkly different worlds of relief. She debunks the myth that
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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
- 9780691152240
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Science
- Rating
- 3.8 / 5 (6 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- 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 (2017)
- 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 (2012)
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