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From slavery to poverty: the racial origins of welfare in New York, 1840-1918

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Uniting African-American history, welfare history, whiteness studies, and women's studies, SenGupta exposes and contests the racialized nineteenth-century imagery of America as an open, competitive, individualistic, monolithic, "white Republic."
"Indeed, though race is firmly in the foreground of this analysis, the hidden strength of this book is its abundant illustration of how poor New Yorkers, of every ethnic background, used welfare institutions to their own purposes. In the difficult task of approaching welfare history from the pauper's point of view, Gunja SenGupta has succeeded... Well worth reading for those interested in the lives of the poor and the realities of social welfare, this book also provides new insights into the history of race ideology in the nineteenth century."

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Call Number

362.5 SEN f

Publisher

New York : New York University Press., 2009

Collation

xiv, 333p.; 23,5 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-8147-4061-3

Classification

362.5

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Subject(s)

Public welfare

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