There was a time when America s poor faced a stark choice between access to social welfare and full civil rights a predicament that forced them to forfeit their citizenship in exchange for economic relief. Over time, however, our welfare system improved dramatically. But as Chad Alan Goldberg here demonstrates, its legacy of disenfranchisement persisted. Indeed, from Reconstruction onward, welfare policies have remained a flashpoint for recurring struggles over the boundaries of citizenship. Citizens and Paupers explores this contentious history by analyzing and comparing three...
There was a time when America s poor faced a stark choice between access to social welfare and full civil rights a predicament that forced them to for...
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they worked in different national traditions and emphasized different features of modern society, they repeatedly invoked Jews as a touchstone for defining modernity and national identity in a context of rapid social change. In Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought, Chad Alan Goldberg brings us a major new study of Western social thought through the lens of Jews and Judaism. In...
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the mod...
