Description |
vi, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Gender and race in American history, 2152-6400 |
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Gender and race in American history.
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Note |
"The chapters in this volume, collected for a conference held at the University of Rochester, see the interconnections between gender and race as fundamental to American identity and central to American history"--Introd. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Historicizing intersectionality as a critical lens : returning to the work of Anna Julia Cooper / Vivian M. May -- "Laissez les bons temps rouler!" and other concealments : households, taverns, and irregular intimacies in antebellum New Orleans / Rashauna J. Chenault -- "There are two great oceans" : the slavery metaphor in the antebellum women's rights discourse as redescription of race and gender / Helene Quanquin -- "Grandpa brown didn't have no land" : race, gender, and an intruder of color in Indian Territory / Kendra Taira Field -- Countable bodies, uncountable crimes : sexual assault and the antilynching movement / Michelle Kuhl -- Persecuting black men and gendering jury service : the interplay between race and gender in the NAACP jury service cases of the 1930s / Meredith Clark-Wiltz -- A "corrupting influence" : idleness and sexuality during the Great Depression / Michele Mitchell -- What women want : the paradoxes of postmodernity as seen through Promise Keeper and Million Man March women / Deborah Gray White -- Epilogue : gender and race as cultural barriers to black women in politics / Carol Moseley Braun. |
Subject |
African American women -- History -- Congresses.
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African American women -- Race identity -- Congresses.
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Gender identity -- United States -- History -- Congresses.
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Sex role -- United States -- History -- Congresses.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- Congresses.
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Feminist theory -- United States -- Congresses.
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Added Author |
Faulkner, Carol.
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Parker, Alison M. (Alison Marie), 1965-
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ISBN |
9781580464215 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1580464211 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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