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Race, ethnicity, and disability : veterans and benefits in post-Civil War America / Larry M. Logue, Peter Blanck.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Logue, Larry M., 1947-
- Series:
- Cambridge disability, law and policy series
- Disability, law and policy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army.
- Minorities.
- History.
- Veterans.
- Social conditions.
- Immigrants.
- Race relations.
- African American veterans.
- Pensions.
- Disabled veterans.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans--Pensions.
- United States.
- Disabled veterans--Pensions--United States--History--19th century.
- African American veterans--Pensions--History--19th century.
- Military pensions--United States--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Military pensions.
- Racism--United States--History--19th century.
- Racism.
- United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Immigrants--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Veterans--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- United States. Army--Minorities--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- "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"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521516341
- 052151634X
- OCLC:
- 496964524
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