Putting Their Hands on Race : Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers /

"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"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Phillips-Cunningham, Danielle (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women household employees.
Race relations.
Irish American women.
African American women.
Women immigrants.
African American women > Southern States > History.
African American women > Northeastern States > History.
Women immigrants > Northeastern States > History.
Irish American women > Northeastern States > History.
Women household employees > United States > History > 20th century.
Women household employees > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
Southern States.
Northeastern States.
Northeastern States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Northeastern States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Putting racial formation theory to work : a women-centered, transdisciplinary, and intersectional approach
  • The 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 : A.K.A. "the servant problem"
  • Irish women whiten themselves, African American women demand the unseen
  • Irish immigrant women become whiter, African American women dignify domestic service.

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