Interconnections: Gender and Race in American History

Gender and Race in American History

by Carol Faulkner (Editor), Alison M. Parker (Editor)

This collection builds on decades of interdisciplinary work by historians of African American women as well as scholars of feminist and critical race theory, bridging the gap between well-developed theories of race, gender, and power and the practice of historical research. It examines how racial and gender identity is constructed from individuals' lived experiences in specific historical contexts, such as westward expansion, civil rights movements, or economic depression as well as by national and transnational debates over marriage, citizenship and sexual mores. All of these essays consider multiple aspects of identity, including sexuality, class, religion, and nationality, among others, but the volume emphasizes gender and race as principal bases of identity and locations of power and oppression in American history. Deborah Gray White, Michele Mitchell, Vivian May, Carol Moseley Braun, Rashauna Johnson, Hélène Quanquin, Kendra Taira Field, Michelle Kuhl, Meredith Clark-Wiltz. Carol Faulkner is Associate Professor and Chair of History at Syracuse University. Alison M. Parker is Professor and Chair of the History Department at SUNY College at Brockport.

Table of Contents

IntroductionHistoricizing Intersectionality as a Critical Returning to the Work of Anna Julia Cooper"Laissez les bons temps rouler!" and Other Households, Taverns, and Irregular Intimacies in Antebellum New Orleans"There Are Two Great Oceans": The Slavery Metaphor in the Antebellum Women's Rights Discourse as Redescription of Race and Gender"Grandpa Brown Didn't Have No Land": Race, Gender, and an Intruder of Color in Indian TerritoryCountable Bodies, Uncountable Sexual Assault and the Antilynching MovementPersecuting Black Men and Gendering Jury The Interplay between Race and Gender in the NAACP Jury Service Cases of the 1930sA "Corrupting Influence": Idleness and Sexuality during the Great DepressionWhat Women The Paradoxes of Postmodernity as Seen through Promise Keeper and Million Man March Gender and Race as Cultural Barriers to Black Women in PoliticsSelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Genres: History

298 pages, Hardcover

First published October 30, 2012