Unequal Freedom
Subtitle: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: June 17, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780674007321
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Civil rights & citizenship; Ethnic studies; Gender studies; Social Science; History: American; History; United States; History - U.S; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; USA; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; United States - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Equality; Sociology - General; Women alien labor; Alien labor; Civil rights; Marginality, Social; Minorities
Description: "The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II.

During this era the country experienced enormous social and economic changes with the abolition of slavery, rapid territorial expansion, and massive immigration, and struggled over the meaning of free labor and the essence of citizenship as people who previously had been excluded sought the promise of economic freedom and full political rights.".

"After an overview of the concepts of the free worker and the independent citizen at the national level, Glenn vividly details how race and gender issues framed the struggle over labor and citizenship rights at the local level between blacks and whites in the South, Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest, and Asians and haoles (white planters) in Hawaii.

She illuminates the complex interplay of local and national forces in American society and provides a dynamic view of how labor and citizenship were defined, enforced, and contested in a formative era for white-nonwhite relations in America."--BOOK JACKET.