Danielle T Phillips-Cunningham

Putting Their Hands on Race

Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers

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Produktbeschreibung

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.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781978800472
• ISBN-10: 1978800479
• Artikelnr.: 56725908

Autorenporträt

Danielle Phillips-Cunningham is an associate professor of multicultural women's and gender studies at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction   
                                                                                                         
                                                         
1          Putting Racial Formation Theory to
Work:                                                   
A Women-Centered, Transdisciplinary, and Intersectional Approach
                                   
2          The Lost Files of Irish Immigration
History:                                     
The Irish Woman Question and Racialized Manual
Labors                         
 
3          Southern Mammy and African American "Immigrant"
Women:                 
Reconstituting White Supremacy after
Emancipation                                               
 
4          Too Irish, Too Rural, Too Black
A.K.A. "The Servant
Problem                                                                       
 
5          Irish Women Whiten Themselves,
African American Women Demand the
Unseen                                           
 
6          Irish Immigrant Women Settle into White,
African American Women Dignify Domestic
Service                                  
 
Conclusion                                                                                                                 
Acknowledgements               
Notes
Bibliography                                                                                                              
    
Index