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Fordham University Press Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation (Reconstructing America)

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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. Until now remarkably little has been written about the relationship between black women and this federal government agency. As Mary Farmer-Kaiser 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. Review Mary Farmer-Kaiser's much-anticipated and excellent new book, Freedwomenand the Freedmen's Bureau, offers the first systematic examination of whatshe calls 'the gendered nature of bureau work.' In masterful fashion, sheexplores the work of the Freedmen's Bureau as an institution whilesimultaneously placing the former slaves, women in particular, at thecenter of her analysis. In doing so, she convincingly demonstrates, inrefreshingly clear and jargon-free prose, that issues of gender areessential to any understanding of the bureau and of emancipation. -----John C. Rodrigue, Stonehill College, author of Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880 Farmer-Kaiser made extensive use of field office records and the commissioner and assistant commissioner records for Virginia, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, chosen for quality and the geographic, demographic, and economic diversity they presented.-- "--American Historical Review" Farmer-Kaiser's contribution adds to our understanding of where conflicting philosophies in terms of class, geography, race, and gender collided in the Reconstruction-era South.-- "--Civil War Monitor" Farmer-Kaiser's contribution to the literature is significant in that she is the first scholar to examine in a book-length study how the polities of the Freedmen's Bureau were shaped by gender ideologies.-- "--H-Net Reviews" Freedwomen and the Freedmen's bureau is well researched and written... Mary Farmer-Kaiser has produced an important work that furthers our understanding of the complexities of the Reconstruction era.-- "--Southwestern Historical Quarterly" Overall, this is a first-rate work that is long overdue in Reconstruction historiography. -----Rebecca A. Kosary, University of North Carolina at Charlotte This work is essential for understanding not only the Fredmen's Bureau's policies but also the plight of black women in the first years of emancipation.-- "--Virginia Magazine" About the Author Mary Farmer-Kaiser is Associate Professor of History as well as the James D. Wilson/BORSF Memorial Professor in Southern Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

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Brand: Fordham University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0823232115
Category: Books > Subjects > History > World History > Slavery & Emancipation
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 29 May 2010
Listed Since: 20 November 2009

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