This collection builds on decades of interdisciplinary scholarship by African American women and gender historians and feminist scholars, 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 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.
Contributors: 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.
Reviews
"This timely collection of essays addresses a critical shortcoming in both feminist scholarship and scholarship on race, namely, a failure to apply intersectionality theory comprehensively. The conception of this collection, as well as the integrity of its central theoretic concern, marks an important intervention."--Katherine Mellen Charron, author of
Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark
Details
First Published: 30 Oct 2012
13 Digit ISBN: 9781580464215
Pages: 298
Size: 9 x 6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
Series:
Gender and Race in American HistorySubject:
Modern HistoryBIC Class: HBLL
Details updated on 18 May 2013
