PREJUDICE & Policy Racial Discrimination in the Union Army Disability Pension System, 1865-1906
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11038445 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stanley E Wilson (0000-0003-3536-6996, National Bureau of Economic Research, corresponding author), Sven E Wilson (Sven E. Wilson is with the Public Policy Graduate Program, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, and the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | S56-S65 |
| Publication date | 2010-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2009.172759 |
| PMID | 20147675 |
| PMCID | PMC2837429 |
| OpenAlex | W2131254009 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 8 |
The Union Army disability pension was an early experiment in colorblind social policy. However, it shortchanged Blacks in 2 ways. First, the law was unable to account for the challenges Blacks faced in proving their eligibility because of the legacy of slavery and discrimination against Black troops during the Civil War. Second, the increasing leniency accorded White soldiers by the Pension Bureau was not extended in the same measure to Blacks. Active discrimination against Blacks resulted in part from local discretion, evidenced by the significantly lower approval rates for both White and Black veterans in the South. Furthermore, when Whites and Blacks claimed disabilities that were easily verifiable, outcomes were similar, but when verification required a degree of trust, Blacks fared considerably worse than Whites
Demographic economics · Disability pension · Discretion · Economics · Environmental health · Pension · Political science · Population · Prejudice (legal term) · Spanish Civil War · White (mutation) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Gerontology
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2019 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |