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The Ellis Island snow globe / Erica Rand.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rand, Erica, 1958-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- a John Hope Franklin Center Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.).
- Ethnicity--United States--Historiography.
- Ethnicity.
- Nationalism--United States--Historiography.
- Nationalism.
- Sex role--United States--Historiography.
- Sex role.
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Souvenirs (Keepsakes)--United States.
- Souvenirs (Keepsakes).
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Historiography.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (359 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A study of the Ellis Island museum, its gift shop, and the Statue of Liberty form the basis of reflections on sex, nation, and immigration.
- Contents:
- Introduction: coming to Ellis Island
- Breeders on a golf ball : normalizing sex at Ellis Island
- Getting dressed up : the displays of Frank Woodhull and the policing of gender
- The traffic in my fantasy butch
- Green woman, race matters
- A nation of immigrants, or whatever
- Immigrant peddlers
- Product packaging
- "Decide an immigrant's fate."
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]- 323) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822387428
- 0822387425
- OCLC:
- 657941408
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