Race, ethnicity, and disability : veterans and benefits in post-Civil War America Larry M. Logue, Peter Blanck.

Race, ethnicity, and disability : veterans and benefits in post-Civil War America

"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 dif...

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Main Author: Logue, Larry M., 1947-
Other Authors: Blanck, Peter David( 1957-)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, c2010.
Series:Disability, law and policy series
Subjects:
United States -- > Minorities -- > History -- > 19th century
Disabled veterans -- > Pensions -- > History -- > 19th century -- > United States
African American veterans -- > Pensions -- > History -- > 19th century
Military pensions -- > Civil War, 1861-1865 -- > United States
Racism -- > History -- > 19th century -- > United States
Immigrants -- > Social conditions -- > 19th century -- > United States
Veterans -- > Social conditions -- > 19th century -- > United States
United States -- > History -- > Veterans -- > Pensions -- > Civil War, 1861-1865
United States -- > Race relations -- > History -- > 19th century
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300 |a xxii, 215 p.:   |b ill.;   |c 24 cm. 
490 1 |a Disability, law and policy series 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p 197-212) and index 
505 0 |a 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 
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"--Provided by publisher. 
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650 0 |a Veterans --   |x Social conditions --   |y 19th century --   |z United States  
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