| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 252 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-243) and index. |
| Contents |
Putting racial formation theory to work: a women-centered, transdisciplinary, and intersectional approach -- Lost files of Irish immigration history: the Irish woman question and racialized manual labors -- Southern Mammy and African American "Immigrant" women: reconstituting white supremacy after emancipation -- Too Irish, too rural, too black: aka "the servant problem" -- Irish immigrant women whiten themselves, African American women demand the undseen -- Irish immigrant women become whiter, African American women dignify domesteic service -- Conclusion: putting hands on race continues. |
| Summary |
"Putting Their Hands on Race is an intersectional and comparative labor history of Southern African American and Irish immigrant women who labored as domestic workers after migrating to Northeastern cities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women household employees -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Women household employees. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Women household employees -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Irish American women -- Northeastern States -- History.
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Irish American women. |
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Northeastern States. |
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Women immigrants -- Northeastern States -- History.
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Women immigrants. |
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African American women -- Northeastern States -- History.
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African American women. |
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African American women -- Southern States -- History.
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Southern States. |
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Northeastern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
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Race relations. |
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Northeastern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Phillips-Cunningham, Danielle T. Putting their hands on race. New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020] 9781978800465 (DLC) 2019007524 (OCoLC)1091292986 |
| ISBN |
9781978800489 (electronic book) |
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1978800487 (electronic book) |
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9781978800502 (electronic book) |
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1978800509 (electronic book) |
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9781978800465 (paperback) |
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1978800460 (paperback) |
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9781978800472 (hardcover) |
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1978800479 (hardcover) |
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