Gender, race, ethnicity, and power in maritime America
Subtitle: papers from the conference held at Mystic Seaport, September 2006
By: edited by Glenn S. Gordinier
Contributors: Gordinier, Glenn S.; Mancini, Jason R.; Mystic Seaport Museum
Publisher: Mystic Seaport
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Mystic, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780939511273
Subjects: Minorities; Congresses; Ethnicity; Navigation; History; Ethnic relations; Race relations; African Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Make haste & let me see you with a good cargo of negroes": gender, power, and the centrality of violence within the eighteenth-century Atlantic slave trade / Sowande' Mustakeem; title: Beyond reservation: Indians, maritime labor, and communities of color from eastern Long Island Sound, 1713-1861 / Jason R. Mancini; title: Possibilities and limits for freedom: maritime fugitives in British North America, ca. 1713-1783 / Charles R. Foy; title: Enslaved underwater divers in the Atlantic world / Kevin Dawson; title: ambassador in the forecastle: the reflections of an American seaman abroad / Brian Rouleau; title: "I never had any better fighters": black sailors in the United States Navy during the War of 1812 / Lauren McCormack, Anne Grimes Rand, and Kristin L. Gallas; title: Citizens, sailors, and slaves / Bryan Sinche; title: Feeding "La boca del puerto": Chileans and the maritime origins of San Francisco / Edward D. Melillo; title: Black Ahab of the bay: William T. Shorey and the San Francisco whale fishery / Timothy G. Lynch; title: "Hands full with the Chinese": maritime dimensions of the Chinese-American experience, 1870-1943 / Joshua M. Smith; title: Sharing the work: Biloxi women in the seafood industry / Deanne Stephens Nuwer; title: The Junior Outing Club, Nisei identity, and the Terminal Island Fishing community / Karen Jenks.