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03267aam a2200457 a 4500 001 AB55D8D46A8B11E689525693DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160825010506 008 100129s2010 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2010004172 020 $a 052151634X (hbk.) 020 $a 9780521516341 (hbk.) 035 $a (OCoLC)496964524 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d CDX $d BWX $d RCJ $d BWK $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a UB373 L64 2010 082 00 $a 331.25/2913550097309034 $2 22 100 1 $a Logue, Larry M., $d 1947- 245 10 $a Race, ethnicity, and disability : $b veterans and benefits in post-Civil War America / $c Larry M. Logue, Peter Blanck. 260 $a New York : $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2010. 300 $a xxii, 215 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Disability, 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"--Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references 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. 651 0 $a United States $x Pensions. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Veterans $x Pensions. 650 0 $a Disabled veterans $x History $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a African American veterans $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Military pensions $z United States $y Civil War, 1861-1865. 650 0 $a Racism $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a United States $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Immigrants $z United States $x Social conditions $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Veterans $z United States $x Social conditions $y 19th century. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army $x History $x History $y 19th century. 700 1 $a Blanck, Peter David, $d 1957- 830 0 $a Cambridge disability, law and policy series 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200204030031.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AB55D8D46A8B11E689525693DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search