{"product_id":"claiming-union-widowhood-brandi-clay-brimmer-9781478011323","title":"Claiming Union Widowhood: Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South","description":"In \u003ci\u003eClaiming Union Widowhood\u003c\/i\u003e, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War. Reconstructing the grassroots pension network in New Bern, North Carolina, through a broad range of historical sources, she outlines how the mothers, wives, and widows of black Union soldiers struggled 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 that they had been promised. Her analyses illustrate the complexities of social policy and 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brandi Clay Brimmer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478011327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478011323\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d","brand":"Brandi Clay Brimmer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048877748479,"sku":"9781478011323","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b87a5009-db41-4edc-b873-a088d91e515e.jpg?v=1684998344","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/claiming-union-widowhood-brandi-clay-brimmer-9781478011323","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}