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  1. May 2024
    1. The case of federal welfare policy also shows how citizenship oper-ated through inclusion as well as exclusion. While approximately ninethousand World War II–era soldiers and sailors were denied GI Bill ben-efits because they were undesirably discharged for homosexuality, amuch greater number of soldiers who experienced and even acted onhomosexual desires were able to use the GI Bill.

      This section clarifies the complex dynamics of citizenship within federal welfare programs, with special reference to how the GI Bill treats people who identify as LGBTQ+. It emphasizes how citizenship functioned through both exclusion and inclusion. Approximately nine thousand servicemen and sailors who were discharged for homosexuality during World War II were not eligible to receive GI Bill payments. This discriminatory behavior is an extreme example of exclusion on the basis of sexual orientation. But in the middle of this exclusion, an odd trend shows up: more soldiers were able to take advantage of the GI Bill benefits even while they were feeling or acting on homosexual inclinations.

  2. Apr 2024
    1. For many scholars and most Americans, the Social Security Act calls tomind the national program of old age insurance that, through decades ofexpansion and billions of dollars in yearly payments, has monopolized theterm “social security.”

      The quotation clarifies the widespread perception among academics and the majority of Americans that the Social Security Act is synonymous with the country's old-age insurance program. It emphasizes the long-lasting effects of this legislation, which created a comprehensive social insurance system and was passed in 1935 under the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. With the backing of major government financing totaling billions of dollars yearly, this program has grown greatly over the years to cover many forms of social security payments, particularly for seniors. The statement "monopolized the term'social security'" implies that the program has taken on a meaning of its own and has eclipsed other applications or interpretations of the term in both scholarly and popular discourse.

    1. . To the female dependents of the region's blackservicemen in particular, family support payments brought financial independencethat enabled them to forgo the low-paying agricultural and domestic-service jobsthey traditionally performed. Unlike military pensions, allotments and allowanceswent, not to widows (often elderly ones), but to the wives of men of draft age (21-30), who were themselves generally of prime working age-which made those pay-ments a concern to employers throughout the South

      This passage demonstrates how family support payments have a profoundly positive effect on black servicemen's female dependents in a particular area. These payments gave these women financial freedom, which enabled them to leave traditional, low-paying employment in domestic service and agriculture. These payments were made to younger wives of draft-age men who were in their prime working years, in contrast to military pensions which normally went to older widows.

    1. Given the ways that slavery was rationalized throughdiscourses that represented the enslaved as childlike, the image framesmarriage as a passage into adulthood not just for the individuals involvedbut also for the race as a whole

      This quotation emphasizes how deeply slavery has impacted racial identity formation and society beliefs. The idea that the justification of slavery came from making the enslaved seem like children emphasizes the dehumanizing ideas that were employed to support the system. According to the remark, marriage was a way for people to demonstrate their agency and maturity in a system that denied them both, by portraying it as a journey into adulthood for both themselves and their race. It also suggests how the larger story of racial advancement was entwined with personal stories, highlighting the group's fight for acceptance and equality. This viewpoint emphasizes how intricately intimate connections and larger social dynamics interact when racialized oppression is present.

    1. ety. We contend that unreflective uses of this keywshrine certain interpretations of social life as authoritativmate or obscure others, generally to the advantage of domsociety and to the disadvantage of

      The sentence makes the case that adopting particular ideas or terminologies without giving them much thought might support particular interpretations of social life as authoritative, which frequently benefits dominant society viewpoints at the expense of others. This implies a critique of the ways in which interpretation and language can uphold societal power structures and disparities.

    1. This was inevitable because in a system that privileges efficiency andproductivity

      I completely agree with this since AI has engraved itself into the lives of every person. And i think that this is an extremely important topic to bring up especially in todays day and age.