Danielle T Phillips-Cunningham

Putting Their Hands on Race

Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides an important labour history of 19th and early 20th century Irish immigrant and US southern Black migrant domestic workers. Drawing on a range of archival sources, this intersectional study explores how these women were significant to the racial labour and citizenship politics of their time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781978800465
• ISBN-10: 1978800460
• Artikelnr.: 56719723

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