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In The Ellis Island Snow Globe, Erica Rand, author of the smart and entertaining book Barbie's Queer Accessories, takes readers on an unconventional tour of Ellis Island, the migration station turned heritage museum, and its neighbor, the Statue of Liberty. By pausing to reflect on what is and...

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Autor principal: Rand, Erica (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2005]
Colección:A John Hope Franklin Center Book : 32
Temas:
Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > United States.
Ethnicity > United States > Historiography.
Nationalism > United States > Historiography.
Sex role > United States > Historiography.
Souvenirs (Keepsakes) > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface: Respect and Reverence
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Coming to Ellis Island
  • 1 Breeders on a Golf Ball: Normalizing Sex at Ellis Island
  • 2 Getting Dressed Up: The Displays of FrankWoodhull and the Policing of Gender
  • 3 The Traffic in my Fantasy Butch
  • 4 GreenWoman, Race Matters
  • 5 A Nation of Immigrants, or Whatever
  • 6 Immigrant Peddlers
  • 7 Product Packaging
  • 8 ''Decide an Immigrant's Fate''
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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