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

Contents

Contents 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 This page intentionally left blank ...