LEADER 03983nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910454000803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-0886-2 010 $a0-8147-4086-3 010 $a1-4416-1562-8 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814708866 035 $a(CKB)1000000000786046 035 $a(EBL)865347 035 $a(OCoLC)779828051 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000159014 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11180436 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000159014 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10150507 035 $a(PQKB)10952556 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865347 035 $a(OCoLC)647825405 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10920 035 $a(DE-B1597)547396 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814708866 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL865347 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10313199 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000786046 100 $a20081113d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFrom slavery to poverty$b[electronic resource] $ethe racial origins of welfare in New York, 1840-1918 /$fGunja SenGupta 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (350 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-4107-X 311 $a0-8147-4061-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 275-324) and index. 327 $aSubaltern 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. 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aPublic welfare$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory 606 $aAfrican Americans$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPublic welfare$xHistory. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory. 676 $a362.5/570890097471 700 $aSenGupta$b Gunja$01036973 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454000803321 996 $aFrom slavery to poverty$92457621 997 $aUNINA