Gunja Sengupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 992433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gunja Sengupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gunja |
| FAMILY NAME | Sengupta |
| SIGNATURE | SENGUPTA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York , New York City, New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4164-8519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
How Welfare Worked in the Early United States
Journal Article How Welfare Worked in the Early United States: Five Microhistories Get access How Welfare Worked in the Early United States: Five Microhistories. By Gabriel J Loiacono. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. viii, 237 pp. Paper, $35.00.) Gunja SenGupta Gunja SenGupta Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York City, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
Africans, the Libyan Sibyl, and the Greek Slave
The Color of Juvenile Justice
Not White, but Worthy
Subaltern Worlds in Antebellum New York
The White Republic and “Workfare”
Epilogue
Black Voluntarism and American Identities
Celtic Sisters, Saxon Keepers
Party over Section
From Slavery to Poverty
The 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 sourc…
Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854
Taking our understanding of political antislavery into largely unexplored terrain, Jonathan H. Earle counters conventional wisdom and standard historical interpretations that view the ascendance of free-soil ideas within the antislavery movement as an explicit retreat from the goals of emancipation or even as an essentially proslavery ideology. These claims, he notes, fail to explain free soil's real contributions to the antislavery cause: its in…
A Covenant with Color
Book Review| April 01 2002 A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn, Craig Steven Wilder. Gunja SenGupta Gunja SenGupta Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 21 (3): 107–108. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502872 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gunja Se…
Missouri's Confederate
Slavery and the American West
For God and Mammon
This is a work on Kansas literature that employs census data in order to reconstruct the reality of sectional conflict and reconciliation. It incorporates civil rights issues, aspects of anti-slavery and the general public images apparent at the time
For God and Mammon
Journal Article For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1854–1860. By Gunja SenGupta. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xvi, 219 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-1779-9.) Get access Carol K. Coburn Carol K. Coburn Avila College, Kansas City, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Page 1402,…
For God and Mammon
Journal Article For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1854–1860 Get access For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1854–1860. By SenGupta Gunja. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xi + 219 pp. Maps, tables, notes, index. $35.00.) Grant Underwood Grant Underwood Brigham Young University, Hawaii Search for other works by this autho…
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For God and Mammon
This is a work on Kansas literature that employs census data in order to reconstruct the reality of sectional conflict and reconciliation. It incorporates civil rights issues, aspects of anti-slavery and the general public images apparent at the time
For God and Mammon
Journal Article For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1854–1860. By Gunja SenGupta. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xvi, 219 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-1779-9.) Get access Carol K. Coburn Carol K. Coburn Avila College, Kansas City, Missouri Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 4, March 1997, Page 1402,…
For God and Mammon
Journal Article For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1854–1860 Get access For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepreneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1854–1860. By SenGupta Gunja. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xi + 219 pp. Maps, tables, notes, index. $35.00.) Grant Underwood Grant Underwood Brigham Young University, Hawaii Search for other works by this autho…
Slavery and the American West
A Covenant with Color
Book Review| April 01 2002 A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn, Craig Steven Wilder. Gunja SenGupta Gunja SenGupta Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2002) 21 (3): 107–108. https://doi.org/10.2307/27502872 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gunja Se…
Missouri's Confederate
Jacksonian Antislavery and the Politics of Free Soil, 1824-1854
Taking our understanding of political antislavery into largely unexplored terrain, Jonathan H. Earle counters conventional wisdom and standard historical interpretations that view the ascendance of free-soil ideas within the antislavery movement as an explicit retreat from the goals of emancipation or even as an essentially proslavery ideology. These claims, he notes, fail to explain free soil's real contributions to the antislavery cause: its in…
From Slavery to Poverty
The 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 sourc…
Party over Section
The Color of Juvenile Justice
Not White, but Worthy
Subaltern Worlds in Antebellum New York
The White Republic and “Workfare”
Epilogue
Black Voluntarism and American Identities
Celtic Sisters, Saxon Keepers
Africans, the Libyan Sibyl, and the Greek Slave
How Welfare Worked in the Early United States
Journal Article How Welfare Worked in the Early United States: Five Microhistories Get access How Welfare Worked in the Early United States: Five Microhistories. By Gabriel J Loiacono. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. viii, 237 pp. Paper, $35.00.) Gunja SenGupta Gunja SenGupta Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York City, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
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