From slavery to poverty [electronic resource] : the racial origins of welfare in New York, 1840-1918 / Gunja SenGupta.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2009.Description: xiv, 335 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.5/570890097471 22
LOC classification:
  • HV99.N59 S43 2009eb
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Contents:
Subaltern worlds in antebellum New York -- The white republic and "workfare" : Blackwell's island -- Not white, but worthy : maternalists and the "pious poor" of the colored home -- The color of juvenile justice : the New York House of Refuge -- Celtic sisters, Saxon keepers : class, whiteness, and the women of the Hopper home -- Black voluntarism and American identities : the Howard Orphanage and Industrial School.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-324) and index.

Subaltern worlds in antebellum New York -- The white republic and "workfare" : Blackwell's island -- Not white, but worthy : maternalists and the "pious poor" of the colored home -- The color of juvenile justice : the New York House of Refuge -- Celtic sisters, Saxon keepers : class, whiteness, and the women of the Hopper home -- Black voluntarism and American identities : the Howard Orphanage and Industrial School.

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