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Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Proceedings of the ... Convention of Managers and Superintendents of Houses of Refuge and Schools of Reform in the United States of America ...
Author: Proceedings of the ... Convention of Managers and Superintendents of Houses of Refuge and Schools of Reform in the United States of America
Author: Convention of Managers and Superintendents of Houses of Refuge and Schools of Reform in the United States of AmericaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 158
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In the Web of Class
Author: Eric C. SchneiderPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814788785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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"An analytic overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston..[Schneider] traces cogently the origins, development, and ultimate failure of Protestant and Catholic reformers' efforts to ameliorate working-class poverty and juvenile delinquency." —Choice"Anyone who wants to understand why America's approach to juvenile justice doesn't work should read In the Web of Class." —Michael B. Katz,University of Pennsylvania
From Slavery to Poverty
Author: Gunja SenGuptaPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 081474107X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
The racially charged stereotype of "welfare queen"—an allegedly promiscuous waster who uses her children as meal tickets funded by tax-payers—is a familiar icon in modern America, but as Gunja SenGupta reveals in From Slavery to Poverty, her historical roots run deep. For, SenGupta argues, the language and institutions of poor relief and reform have historically served as forums for inventing and negotiating identity. Mining a broad array of sources on nineteenth-century New York City’s interlocking network of private benevolence and municipal relief, SenGupta shows that these institutions promoted a racialized definition of poverty and citizenship. But they also offered a framework within which working poor New Yorkers—recently freed slaves and disfranchised free blacks, Afro-Caribbean sojourners and Irish immigrants, sex workers and unemployed laborers, and mothers and children—could challenge stereotypes and offer alternative visions of community. Thus, SenGupta argues, long before the advent of the twentieth-century welfare state, the discourse of welfare in its nineteenth-century incarnation created a space to talk about community, race, and nation; about what it meant to be “American,” who belonged, and who did not. Her work provides historical context for understanding why today the notion of "welfare"—with all its derogatory “un-American” connotations—is associated not with middle-class entitlements like Social Security and Medicare, but rather with programs targeted at the poor, which are wrongly assumed to benefit primarily urban African Americans.
Catalogue of the Michigan State Library
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Catalogue of the Michigan State Library, for the Years 1881-2
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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The Irish Quarterly Review
Author: Catalogue
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Catalogue of the Michigan State Library, for the Years 1879-80
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Catalogue of the Pennsylvania State Library
Author: Pennsylvania State LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1478
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