Race, Care Work, and The Private Law of Inheritance
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-22-2015
Abstract
In Someday All This Will Be Yours, Hendrik Hartog (2012) examines how private inheritance law structured the strategies people used at the turn of the twentieth century to induce relatives to care for them as they aged. Reading it as a book about social inequality and the family reveals how wealth, gender, and race not only worked to deny claims of marginalized caregivers but also to hide the way these social hierarchies affect family life. Although race does not figure in Hartog's analysis, highlighting its latent presence illustrates the often unspoken yet fundamental role race plays in legal regulation of families.
Publication Title
Law & Social Inquiry
Repository Citation
40 Law & Soc. Inquiry 511 (2015)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/lsi.12130