The Resource Claiming Union Widowhood : race, respectability, and poverty in the post-emancipation South, Brandi Clay Brimmer
Claiming Union Widowhood : race, respectability, and poverty in the post-emancipation South, Brandi Clay Brimmer
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The item Claiming Union Widowhood : race, respectability, and poverty in the post-emancipation South, Brandi Clay Brimmer represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Charleston County Public Library.
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- Summary
- "In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War. Reconstructing the world of New Bern, North Carolina's grassroots pension network through a broad range of historical sources, she outlines the struggles of mothers, wives, and widows of black Union soldiers to claim pensions in the face of evidentiary obstacles and personal scrutiny. Brimmer exposes and examines the numerous attempts by the federal government to exclude black women from receiving the federal pensions promised to the relatives of dead or maimed Union soldiers. Her analyses illustrate the complexities of social policy, law administration, and the interconnectedness of race, gender, and class formation. Expanding on previous analyses of pension records, Brimmer offers an interpretive framework of emancipation and the freedom narrative that places black women at the forefront of demands for black citizenship"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 306 pages;
- Contents
-
- A People and a Place
- Black Life and Labor in New Bern, North Carolina, 1850-
- The Black Community in New Bern, 1865-1920
- Encountering the State
- Her Claim Is Lawful and Just: Black Women's Petitions for Survivors' Benefits
- Black Women, Claims Agents, and the Pension Network
- Encounters with the State: Black Women and Special Examiners
- Marriage and the Expansion of the Pension System in Black Women and Suspensions for "Open and Notorious Cohabitation"
- The Personal Consequences of Union Widowhood
- Isbn
- 9781478011323
- Label
- Claiming Union Widowhood : race, respectability, and poverty in the post-emancipation South
- Title
- Claiming Union Widowhood
- Title remainder
- race, respectability, and poverty in the post-emancipation South
- Statement of responsibility
- Brandi Clay Brimmer
- Subject
-
- Military pensions -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Pensions
- African American women -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century
- Widows -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century
- Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States, Army -- Minorities | History -- 19th century
- Military pensions -- North Carolina
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War. Reconstructing the world of New Bern, North Carolina's grassroots pension network through a broad range of historical sources, she outlines the struggles of mothers, wives, and widows of black Union soldiers to claim pensions in the face of evidentiary obstacles and personal scrutiny. Brimmer exposes and examines the numerous attempts by the federal government to exclude black women from receiving the federal pensions promised to the relatives of dead or maimed Union soldiers. Her analyses illustrate the complexities of social policy, law administration, and the interconnectedness of race, gender, and class formation. Expanding on previous analyses of pension records, Brimmer offers an interpretive framework of emancipation and the freedom narrative that places black women at the forefront of demands for black citizenship"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- NcD/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1973-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brimmer, Brandi Clay
- Dewey number
- 331.25/291355008996073
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- UB374.N8
- LC item number
- B756 2020
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- United States
- Military pensions
- Military pensions
- Widows
- African American women
- Women's rights
- Racism
- United States
- Label
- Claiming Union Widowhood : race, respectability, and poverty in the post-emancipation South, Brandi Clay Brimmer
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A People and a Place -- Black Life and Labor in New Bern, North Carolina, 1850- -- The Black Community in New Bern, 1865-1920 -- Encountering the State -- Her Claim Is Lawful and Just: Black Women's Petitions for Survivors' Benefits -- Black Women, Claims Agents, and the Pension Network -- Encounters with the State: Black Women and Special Examiners -- Marriage and the Expansion of the Pension System in Black Women and Suspensions for "Open and Notorious Cohabitation" -- The Personal Consequences of Union Widowhood
- Control code
- on1150933725
- Dimensions
- 24cm
- Extent
- xiv, 306 pages;
- Isbn
- 9781478011323
- Lccn
- 2020018449
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1150933725
- Label
- Claiming Union Widowhood : race, respectability, and poverty in the post-emancipation South, Brandi Clay Brimmer
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- A People and a Place -- Black Life and Labor in New Bern, North Carolina, 1850- -- The Black Community in New Bern, 1865-1920 -- Encountering the State -- Her Claim Is Lawful and Just: Black Women's Petitions for Survivors' Benefits -- Black Women, Claims Agents, and the Pension Network -- Encounters with the State: Black Women and Special Examiners -- Marriage and the Expansion of the Pension System in Black Women and Suspensions for "Open and Notorious Cohabitation" -- The Personal Consequences of Union Widowhood
- Control code
- on1150933725
- Dimensions
- 24cm
- Extent
- xiv, 306 pages;
- Isbn
- 9781478011323
- Lccn
- 2020018449
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1150933725
Subject
- Military pensions -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Pensions
- African American women -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century
- Widows -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century
- Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- United States, Army -- Minorities | History -- 19th century
- Military pensions -- North Carolina
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