Nation Making and the Poverty in the Twentieth Century America: Reconsidering the Ethno-Racial Divisions as Social Issue.

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520830
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of Europe and America
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: Nakano Kotaro 大阪大学, 文学研究科, 准教授 (00264789)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 南北アメリカ史 / ナショナリズム / 社会福祉 / 人種

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examined the historical co-relations of the poverty and the nation making of the early twentieth century America. To explore this historical process, I analyzed the contemporary discourses on social equality and diverse practices of anti-poverty by urban intellectuals. Furthermore, this study surveyed the early legislations of social welfare policy, that is the Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Protection Act of 1921 and city planning regulations, such as the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act of 1922. By working on these topics, I also elucidated the historical contexts which consequently brought about the complex ethno-racial divisions within in the American nation.

Free Research Field

人文学