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008 100129s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010004172
020 $a9780521516341 (hardback)
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050 00 $aUB373$b.L64 2010
082 00 $a331.25/2913550097309034$222
100 1 $aLogue, Larry M.,$d1947-
245 10 $aRace, ethnicity, and disability :$bveterans and benefits in post-Civil War America /$cLarry M. Logue, Peter Blanck.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2010.
263 $a1006
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aDisability, law and policy series
520 $a"Using data from more than 40,000 soldiers of the Union army, this book focuses on the experience of African Americans and immigrants with disabilities, investigating their decision to seek government assistance and their resulting treatment. Pension administrators treated these ex-soldiers differently from native-born whites, but the discrimination was far from seamless - biased evaluations of worthiness intensified in response to administrators' workload and nativists' late-nineteenth-century campaigns. This book finds a remarkable interplay of social concepts, historical context, bureaucratic expediency, and individual initiative. Examining how African Americans and immigrants weighed their circumstances in deciding when to request a pension, employ a pension attorney, or if seek institutionalization, it contends that these veterans quietly asserted their right to benefits. Shedding new light on the long history of challenges faced by veterans with disabilities, the book underscores the persistence of these challenges in spite of the recent revolution in disability rights"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. The winding path of the self and the other; 2. The moral economy of veterans' benefits; 3. African-American veterans and the pension system; 4. Pensions for foreign-born veterans; 5. 'A more infamous gang of cut-throats never lived'; 6. Havens of last resort; 7. Epilogue.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xVeterans$xPensions.
650 0 $aDisabled veterans$xPensions$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAfrican American veterans$xPensions$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMilitary pensions$zUnited States$yCivil War, 1861-1865.
650 0 $aRacism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
651 0 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aImmigrants$zUnited States$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
650 0 $aVeterans$zUnited States$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bArmy$xMinorities$xHistory$y19th century.
700 1 $aBlanck, Peter David,$d1957-