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Title: The Boundaries of Social Citizenship: Race, Immigration and the American Welfare State, 1900-1950

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2007

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Abstract: A significant body of work demonstrates the powerful role that race has played in the growth, scope, and character of the American welfare state. Yet this literature has focused almost exclusively on Black-White relations, ignoring the role that immigration has had on the formation and evolution of U.S. welfare policies. This dissertation examines the role of race and immigration in the development of the early American welfare state by comparing the extension of social citizenship to Mexicans, European immigrants and Blacks in the first half of the twentieth century. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative data from government reports, archives, congressional debates, public opinion polls, the U.S. census, and the writings of contemporaries, this dissertation demonstrates that Blacks, Mexicans and European immigrants were each treated quite differently by the social welfare programs of the Progressive Era through the New Deal. European immigrants were largely . . .

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Authors: Fox, Cybelle

Institution: Harvard University

Department: Social Policy

Advisor: William Julius W ilson

Degree: PhD

Publisher Location: Cambridge, MA

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other, Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity

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