Full Description
Explores gender and race as principal bases of identity and locations of power and oppression in American history.
This collection builds on decades of interdisciplinary work by historians of African American women as well as scholars of feminist and critical race theory, bridging the gap between well-developed theories of race, gender, and power and the practice of historical research. It examines how racial and gender identity is constructed from individuals' lived experiences in specific historical contexts, such as westward expansion, civil rights movements, or economic depression as well as by national and transnational debates over marriage, citizenship and sexual mores. All of these essays consider multiple aspects of identity, including sexuality, class, religion, and nationality, amongothers, but the volume emphasizes gender and race as principal bases of identity and locations of power and oppression in American history.
Contributors: Deborah Gray White, Michele Mitchell, Vivian May, Carol MoseleyBraun, Rashauna Johnson, Hélène Quanquin, Kendra Taira Field, Michelle Kuhl, Meredith Clark-Wiltz. Carol Faulkner is Associate Professor and Chair of History at Syracuse University.
Alison M. Parker is Professor and Chairof the History Department at SUNY College at Brockport.
Contents
Introduction
Historicizing Intersectionality as a Critical Lens: Returning to the Work of Anna Julia Cooper
"Laissez les bons temps rouler!" and Other Concealments: Households, Taverns, and Irregular Intimacies in Antebellum New Orleans
"There Are Two Great Oceans": The Slavery Metaphor in the Antebellum Women's Rights Discourse as Redescription of Race and Gender
"Grandpa Brown Didn't Have No Land": Race, Gender, and an Intruder of Color in Indian Territory
Countable Bodies, Uncountable Crimes: Sexual Assault and the Antilynching Movement
Persecuting Black Men and Gendering Jury Service: The Interplay between Race and Gender in the NAACP Jury Service Cases of the 1930s
A "Corrupting Influence": Idleness and Sexuality during the Great Depression
What Women Want: The Paradoxes of Postmodernity as Seen through Promise Keeper and Million Man March Women
Epilogue: Gender and Race as Cultural Barriers to Black Women in Politics
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
