Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau
Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9309225 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary J Farmer-Kaiser (corresponding author), Mary Farmer-Kaiser |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 275 |
| Publication date | 2010-05-29 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Fordham University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5422/fso/9780823232116.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2337960345 |
| Open Library | OL24013806M |
| ISBN | 9780823232116 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Established by Congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands—more commonly known as “the Freedmen's Bureau”—assumed the Herculean task of overseeing the transition from slavery to freedom in the post-Civil War South. Although it was called the Freedmen's Bureau, the agency profoundly affected African-American women. Yet despite voluminous scholarship on the Bureau, until now remarkably little has been written about the relationship between black women and this federal government agency. Neglected as well has been consideration of the role that mid-nineteenth century understandings of gender and gender difference played in shaping the outcome of Bureau policy. As the book clearly demonstrates in this revealing work, by failing to recognize freedwomen as active agents of change and overlooking the gendered assumptions at work in Bureau efforts, scholars have ultimately failed to understand fully the Bureau's relationships with freedwomen, freedmen, and black communities in this pivotal era of American history
African american · Agency (philosophy · Ethnology · Government (linguistics · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Work (physics · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Engineering · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society · 19th century · African American women · African americans · bureau of refugees, freedmen and abandoned lands · History · Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) · Social aspects · Social conditions · Southern states · united states · United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands · Women
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |