Title Domestic contradictions : race and gendered citizenship from Reconstruction to welfare reform / Priya Kandaswamy

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 234 pages) : illustrations 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 -- Conclusion Summary "Domestic Contradictions is a comparative historical analysis of racialized constructions of gendered citizenship in Reconstruction Era efforts to curb female vagrancy and late twentieth century welfare reform. Priya Kandaswamy draws on original archival research and builds on Black feminist and queer of color approaches to highlight similarities between how the Freedmen's Bureau employed marriage promotion and compulsory labor contracts to control Black women after emancipation and the ways marriage promotion and workfare were central tenets of late twentieth century anti-welfare discourse that culminated in the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 1996"--Publisher's description "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 normative assumptions about gender, race, and citizenship."-- Provided by publisher Analysis African American feminism Black feminism Sex role in social policy Heterosexism in public welfare Heteronormativity in public welfare Domesticity Surveillance Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Description based on print version record digitized 2022. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject United States. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. SUBJECT United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands fast Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (United States) fast Subject Racism in public welfare -- United States -- History Heterosexism -- United States -- History Public welfare -- United States -- History -- Sources Welfare recipients -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States African American women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History African American families -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History African American women -- Social conditions Womanism. HISTORY / United States / General African American women -- Social conditions Heterosexism Public welfare Racism in public welfare Social policy Welfare recipients -- Legal status, laws, etc. Womanism SUBJECT United States -- Social policy -- 1993- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006374 Subject United States Genre/Form History Sources Form Electronic book LC no. 2020046888 ISBN 1478021624 9781478021629

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