001479522 000__ 05440nam\a22009855i\4500 001479522 001__ 1479522 001479522 003__ DE-B1597 001479522 005__ 20231026035058.0 001479522 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479522 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479522 008__ 230918t20092009nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479522 020__ $$a9780814708866 001479522 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814708866.001.0001$$2doi 001479522 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)547396 001479522 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479522 0410_ $$aeng 001479522 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479522 050_4 $$aHV99.N59 S43 2009 001479522 072_7 $$aHIS036080$$2bisacsh 001479522 08204 $$a362.509747109034 001479522 1001_ $$aSenGupta, Gunja, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479522 24510 $$aFrom Slavery to Poverty :$$bThe Racial Origins of Welfare in New York, 1840-1918 /$$cGunja SenGupta. 001479522 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2009] 001479522 264_4 $$c©2009 001479522 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479522 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479522 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479522 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479522 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479522 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tList of Illustrations -- $$tIntroduction -- $$tPART I -- $$t1 Subaltern Worlds in Antebellum New York -- $$t2 The White Republic and "Workfare" -- $$t3 Not White, but Worthy -- $$tPART II -- $$t4 The Color of Juvenile Justice -- $$t5 Celtic Sisters, Saxon Keepers -- $$tPART III -- $$t6 Black Voluntarism and American Identities -- $$tEpilogue -- $$tAppendix -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001479522 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479522 520__ $$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. 001479522 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479522 546__ $$aIn English. 001479522 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. 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