White slave crusades
Subtitle: race, gender, and anti-vice activism, 1887-1917
By: Brian Donovan.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Urbana and Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780252030253
Subjects: Prostitution -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Prostitution -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Racism -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Social classes -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Social classes -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "During the early twentieth century, individuals and organizations from across the political spectrum launched a sustained effort to eradicate forced prostitution, commonly known as "white slavery," White Slave Crusades is the first comparative study to focus on how these anti-vice campaigns helped create a racial hierarchy in the United States." "Focusing on the intersection of race, gender, and sex in the antiprostitution campaigns. Brian Donovan analyzes the reactions of native-born whites to new immigrant groups in Chicago, to African Americans in New York City, and to Chinese immigrants in San Francisco. Donovan shows how reformers employed white slavery narratives of sexual danger to clarify the boundaries of racial categories, allowing native-born whites to speak of a collective "us" as opposed to a "them." These stories about forced prostitution used sexual danger to justify segregation, as well as other forms of racial and sexual boundary maintenance in urban America."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: White slavery and the intersection of race and gender; title: The new abolitionism : the cultural power of the white slavery; title: Genre; title: Suffrage and slavery : the racial politics of the WCTU's purity; title: Campaign; title: "The black traffic in white girls" : Chicago's war on vice; title: John D. Rockefeller jr. and the "notorious mulatto procuress"; title: "Yellow slavery" and Donaldina Cameron's San Francisco mission; title: Conclusion.