Gender and race in American history
By: edited by Carol Faulkner and Alison M. Parker
Series: Gender and race in American history -- v. 3
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781580464215
Subjects: Race relations; Race identity; Feminist theory; Sex role; African American women; Congresses; Gender identity; History
Notes: "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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Historicizing intersectionality as a critical lens : returning to the work of Anna Julia Cooper / Vivian M. May; title: "Laissez les bons temps rouler!" and other concealments : households, taverns, and irregular intimacies in antebellum New Orleans / Rashauna J. Chenault; title: "There are two great oceans" : the slavery metaphor in the antebellum women's rights discourse as redescription of race and gender / Hélène Quanquin; title: "Grandpa brown didn't have no land" : race, gender, and an intruder of color in Indian Territory / Kendra Taira Field; title: Countable bodies, uncountable crimes : sexual assault and the antilynching movement / Michelle Kuhl; title: 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; title: A "corrupting influence" : idleness and sexuality during the Great Depression / Michele Mitchell; title: What women want : the paradoxes of postmodernity as seen through Promise Keeper and Million Man March women / Deborah Gray White; title: Epilogue : gender and race as cultural barriers to black women in politics / Carol Moseley Braun.