Unequal Freedom How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor

Name: Unequal Freedom How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor
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ISBN: 9780674013728

ISBN-10: 0674013727

ISBN-13: 9780674013728

Edition: 2002

Authors: Evelyn Nakano Glenn

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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…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/15/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Evelyn Nakano Glenn is Professor of Womenï¿½e(tm)s Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Integrating Race and Gender



Citizenship: Universalism and Exclusion



Labor: Freedom and Coercion



Blacks and Whites in the South



Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest



Japanese and Haoles in Hawaii



Understanding American Inequality


Notes


Index