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"Miscegenation"

Making Race in America

By: Elise Lemire

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In the years between the Revolution and the Civil War, as the question of black political rights was debated more and more vociferously, descriptions and pictorial representations of whites coupling with blacks proliferated in the North. Novelists, short-story writers, poets, journalists, and political cartoonists imagined that political equality would be followed by widespread inter-racial sex and marriage. Legally possible yet socially unthinkable, this "amalgamation" of the races would manifest itself in the perverse union of "whites" with "blacks," the latter figured as ugly, animal-like, and foul-smelling. In Miscegenation, Elise Lemire reads these literary and visual depictions for what they can tell us about the connection between the racialization of desire and the social construction of race. Previous studies of the prohibition of interracial sex and marriage in the U.S. have focused on either the slave South or the post-Reconstruction period. Looking instead to the North, and to such texts as the Federalist poetry about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," and the 1863 pamphlet in which the word "miscegenation" was first used, Lemire examines the steps by which whiteness became a sexual category and same-race desire came to seem a biological imperative.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812200349

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9780812200348

Battle Green Vietnam

The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston

By: Elise Lemire

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Battle Green Vietnam

The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston

By: Elise Lemire

Based on more than one hundred interviews with participants and accompanied by nearly forty photographs and maps, Battle Green Vietnam tells the story of the 1971 antiwar protest by Vietnam veterans that resulted in the largest mass arrest in Massachusetts history.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812252977

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9780812252972

"Miscegenation"

Making Race in America

By: Elise Lemire

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Making Race in America

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Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair

By: Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson

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Black Beauty and the Politics of Hair

By: Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson

Sociologist Chelsea Mary Elise Johnson uses interviews, media analysis, and participant observation in beauty shops, online blogs, and natural hair meet-ups around the world to trace how Black women use natural hair culture to reimagine their bodies, the beauty industry, and racial politics"--

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294

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NYU Press

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1479814733

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9781479814732

Cash Cow

Ten Myths about the Dairy Industry

By: Elise Desaulniers

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Cash Cow

Ten Myths about the Dairy Industry

By: Elise Desaulniers

A popular and respected blogger in Québec, Canada, Élise Desaulniers is a food ethics and animal rights advocate who is also interested in public policy, philosophy, and feminism. In Cash Cow, she takes a hard look at the dairy industry, and how it has persuaded the general public of the naturalness and value of cows’ milk in the human diet. Desaulniers asks just who really benefits from the promotion of dairy, and just how effectively animal welfare and small farming operations can be protected in an age of consolidation and confinement.

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190

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Lantern Books

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1590564944

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9781590564943

Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java

Comparisons, Contrasts, and Connections, 1830–1940

By: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk

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Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java

Comparisons, Contrasts, and Connections, 1830–1940

By: Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk

‘This book makes an important contribution to the history of household labour relations in two contrasting societies. It deserves a wide readership.’ —Anne Booth, SOAS University of London, UK ‘By exploring how colonialism affected women’s work in the Dutch Empire this carefully researched book urges us to rethink the momentous implications of colonial exploitation on gender roles both in periphery and metropolis.’ —Ulbe Bosma, the Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands ‘In this exciting and original book, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk exposes how colonial connections helped determine the status and position of women in both the Netherlands and Java. The effects of these connections continue to shape women’s lives in both colony and metropole today.’ —Jane Humphries, University of Oxford, UK Recent postcolonial studies have stressed the importance of the mutual influences of colonialism on both colony and metropole. This book studies such colonial entanglements and their effects by focusing on developments in household labour in the Dutch Empire in the period 1830-1940. The changing role of households’, and particularly women’s, economic activities in the Netherlands and Java, one of the most important Dutch colonies, forms an excellent case study to help understand the connections and disparities between colony and metropole. The author contends that colonial entanglements certainly existed, and influenced developments in women’s economic role to an extent, both in Java and the Netherlands. However, during the nineteenth century, more and more distinctions in the visions and policies towards Dutch working class and Javanese peasant households emerged. Accordingly, a more sophisticated framework is needed to explain how and why such connections were – both intentionally and unintentionally – severed over time.

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Springer

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3030105288

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9783030105280

Battle Green Vietnam

The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston

By: Elise Lemire

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The 1971 March on Concord, Lexington, and Boston

By: Elise Lemire

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"Miscegenation"

"Miscegenation"

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Battle Green Vietnam

"Miscegenation"

"Miscegenation"

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Natural

Cash Cow

Cash Cow

Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java

Women, Work and Colonialism in the Netherlands and Java

Battle Green Vietnam

Battle Green Vietnam

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