Domestic Contradictions : Race and Gendered Citizenship from Reconstruction to Welfare Reform /

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"Priya Kandaswamy brings together two crucial moments in welfare history-the advent of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996-to show how they each targeted Black women through negative stereotyping and no...

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Main Author: Kandaswamy, Priya, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
United States. > Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (United States)
Womanism.
Welfare recipients > Legal status, laws, etc.
Social policy.
Racism in public welfare.
Public welfare.
African American women > Social conditions.
Public welfare > United States > History > Sources.
Welfare recipients > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
Racism in public welfare > United States.
United States.
United States > Social policy > 1993-
Sources.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Welfare reform and the afterlife of slavery
  • Making state, making family
  • Marriage and the making of gendered citizenship
  • Domestic labor and the politics of reform
  • The chains of welfare.

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