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Author:

Fox, Cybelle.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

ix, 393 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Immigrants--United States--Social conditions--20th century.
Immigrants--History--United States--History--20th century.
Welfare state--United States--History--20th century.
United States--History--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Series:

Princeton studies in American politics: historical, international, and comparative perspectives

ISBN:

0691152241 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691152240 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0691152233 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780691152233 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)747232757

LCCN:

2011034395

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)