Unequal Freedom : How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor / Evelyn Nakano Glenn.
2004
HN90.S6 ǂb G554 2002eb
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Title
Unequal Freedom : How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor / Evelyn Nakano Glenn.
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9780674037649
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2004]
Copyright
©2004
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (320 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674037649 doi
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HN90.S6 ǂb G554 2002eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
323.0973
Summary
The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II. During this era the country experienced enormous social and economic changes with the abolition of slavery, rapid territorial expansion, and massive immigration, and struggled over the meaning of free labor and the essence of citizenship as people who previously had been excluded sought the promise of economic freedom and full political rights. After a lucid overview of the concepts of the free worker and the independent citizen at the national level, Glenn vividly details how race and gender issues framed the struggle over labor and citizenship rights at the local level between blacks and whites in the South, Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest, and Asians and haoles (the white planter class) in Hawaii. She illuminates the complex interplay of local and national forces in American society and provides a dynamic view of how labor and citizenship were defined, enforced, and contested in a formative era for white-nonwhite relations in America.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Integrating Race and Gender
2 Citizenship: Universalism and Exclusion
3 Labor: Freedom and Coercion
4 Blacks and Whites in the South
5 Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest
6 Japanese and Haoles in Hawaii
7 Understanding American Inequality
Notes
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Integrating Race and Gender
2 Citizenship: Universalism and Exclusion
3 Labor: Freedom and Coercion
4 Blacks and Whites in the South
5 Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest
6 Japanese and Haoles in Hawaii
7 Understanding American Inequality
Notes
Index