Holly Allen
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801453571
- eISBN:
- 9780801455841
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801453571.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This book explores the gender and racial contours of civic culture in the New Deal years. It considers how positive feelings of sympathy, pride, and reassurance combined with negative regard for ...
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This book explores the gender and racial contours of civic culture in the New Deal years. It considers how positive feelings of sympathy, pride, and reassurance combined with negative regard for feminized and racialized outsiders to engender support for the New Deal state, despite the anxiety many Americans felt over the expansion of federal power that New Deal policies entailed. It discusses a series of emotionally charged civic stories, each of which speaks to the gender, racial, and sexual dimensions of the emergent U.S. welfare state. It analyzes the sexual politics of this emergent welfare state in relation to Americans' lived experience of citizenship in the Great Depression and World War II by focusing on the institutional histories of several federal agencies such as the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the War Relocation Authority.Less
This book explores the gender and racial contours of civic culture in the New Deal years. It considers how positive feelings of sympathy, pride, and reassurance combined with negative regard for feminized and racialized outsiders to engender support for the New Deal state, despite the anxiety many Americans felt over the expansion of federal power that New Deal policies entailed. It discusses a series of emotionally charged civic stories, each of which speaks to the gender, racial, and sexual dimensions of the emergent U.S. welfare state. It analyzes the sexual politics of this emergent welfare state in relation to Americans' lived experience of citizenship in the Great Depression and World War II by focusing on the institutional histories of several federal agencies such as the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the War Relocation Authority.
Holly Allen
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801453571
- eISBN:
- 9780801455841
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801453571.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter examines the politics of federal relief and its implications for gender, race, and citizenship. It considers how the figure of the forgotten man came to represent unemployment during the ...
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This chapter examines the politics of federal relief and its implications for gender, race, and citizenship. It considers how the figure of the forgotten man came to represent unemployment during the Great Depression, and particularly for jobless white men dependent on relief. It presents civic stories of forgotten manhood to elucidate how a particular, emotionally charged narrative about collective white masculine identity contributed to the hegemonic power of the New Deal state. Focusing on the Civil Works Administration and the Works Progress Administration, the book shows that the institutional history of federal emergency relief is intertwined with the broader narrative of forgotten manhood.Less
This chapter examines the politics of federal relief and its implications for gender, race, and citizenship. It considers how the figure of the forgotten man came to represent unemployment during the Great Depression, and particularly for jobless white men dependent on relief. It presents civic stories of forgotten manhood to elucidate how a particular, emotionally charged narrative about collective white masculine identity contributed to the hegemonic power of the New Deal state. Focusing on the Civil Works Administration and the Works Progress Administration, the book shows that the institutional history of federal emergency relief is intertwined with the broader narrative of forgotten manhood.
