White slave crusades : race, gender, and anti-vice activism, 1887-1917 / Brian Donovan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Donovan, Brian, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution--United States--History--19th century.

Prostitution.

Racism--United States--History--19th century.

Racism.

Racism--United States--History--20th century.

Social classes--United States--History--19th century.

Social classes.

Social classes--United States--History--20th century.

Women--Suffrage--United States--History--19th century.

Women.

Women--Suffrage--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the early twentieth century, individuals and organizations from across the political spectrum launched a sustained effort to eradicate forced prostitution, commonly known as "white slavery." White Slave Crusades is the first comparative study to focus on how these anti-vice campaigns also resulted in the creation of a racial hierarchy in the United States.Focusing on the intersection of race, gender, and sex in the antiprostitution campaigns, Brian Donovan analyzes the reactions of native-born whites to new immigrant groups in Chicago, to African Americans in New York City, and to Chinese immigrants in San Francisco. Donovan shows how reformers employed white slavery narratives of sexual danger to clarify the boundaries of racial categories, allowing native-born whites to speak of a collective "us" as opposed to a "them." These stories about forced prostitution provided an emotionally powerful justification for segregation, as well as other forms of racial and sexual boundary maintenance in urban America.

Contents:

White slavery and the intersection of race and gender

The new abolitionism : the cultural power of the white slavery genre

Suffrage and slavery : the racial politics of the Women's Christian Temperance Union purity campaign

"The black traffic in white girls" : Chicago's war on vice

John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and the "negro alleged slave trader"

"Yellow slavery" and Donaldina Cameron's San Francisco mission

Conclusion : the demise of white slavery.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-180) and index.

ISBN:

9786613223876

9781283223874

1283223872

9780252091001

0252091000

OCLC:

1154853069