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03983aam a2200565 i 4500 001 2DEFD05886E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210317010020 008 200812t20202020ncuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020018449 020 $a 1478011327 020 $a 9781478011323 020 $a 1478010258 020 $a 9781478010258 035 $a (OCoLC)1150933725 040 $a NcD/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCF $d IMF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us-nc $a n-us-nc 050 00 $a UB374.N8 $b B756 2020 100 1 $a Brimmer, Brandi Clay, $d 1973- $e author. 245 10 $a Claiming Union widowhood : $b race, respectability, and poverty in the post-emancipation South / $c Brandi Clay Brimmer. 264 1 $a Durham : $b Duke University Press, $c 2020. 300 $a xiv, 306 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army $x History $x History $y 19th century. 610 17 $a United States. $b Army. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00533532 650 0 $a Military pensions $z United States $y Civil War, 1861-1865. 650 0 $a Military pensions $z North Carolina. 650 0 $a Widows $z North Carolina $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a African American women $z North Carolina $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Women's rights $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Racism $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Pensions. $y Civil War, 1861-1865 $x Pensions. 650 7 $a African American women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799438 650 7 $a Armed Forces $x Minorities. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00814612 650 7 $a Military pensions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01021361 650 7 $a Pensions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01057086 650 7 $a Racism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086616 650 7 $a Widows. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01174951 650 7 $a Women's rights. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01178818 651 7 $a North Carolina. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204304 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Brimmer, Brandi Clay, 1973- $t Claiming union widowhood $d Durham : Duke University Press, 2020. $z 9781478012832 $w (DLC) 2020018450 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019011049.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2DEFD05886E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search