Domestic Contradictions: Race and Gendered Citizenship from Reconstruction to Welfare Reform

Author/Contributor(s):	Kandaswamy, Priya
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	08/20/2021
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Priya Kandaswamy brings together two crucial moments in welfare history--the advent of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996--to show how they each targeted Black women through negative stereotyping and normative assumptions about gender, race, and citizenship.