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

by Cybelle Fox

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691152241
• ISBN13: 9780691152240
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.6"