Fox Three Worlds of Relief

Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4258-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives

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 white America's immigrant ancestors pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, unlike immigrants and minorities today. Three Worlds of Relief challenges us to reconsider not only the historical record but also the implications of our past on contemporary debates about race, immigration, and the American welfare state.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fox, Cybelle

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Abbreviations xi

Chapter 1: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State 1

Chapter 2: Three Worlds of Race, Labor, and Politics 19

Chapter 3: Three Worlds of Relief 52

Chapter 4: The Mexican Dependency Problem 73

Chapter 5: No Beggar Spirit 95

Chapter 6: Deporting the Unwelcome Visitors 124

Chapter 7: Repatriating the Unassimilable Aliens 156

Chapter 8: A Fair Deal or a Raw Deal? 188

Chapter 9: The WPA and the (Short-Lived) Triumph of Nativism 214

Chapter 10: A New Deal for the Alien 250

Chapter 11: The Boundaries of Social Citizenship 281

Abbreviations in the Notes 295

Notes 299

Index 371

Über Autor(innen)

Cybelle Fox is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the coauthor of Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings.