Putting their hands on race : Irish immigrant and Southern Black domestic workers / Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips-Cunningham, Danielle T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women household employees--United States--History--19th century.

Women household employees.

Women household employees--United States--History--20th century.

Irish American women--Northeastern States--History.

Irish American women.

Women immigrants--Northeastern States--History.

Women immigrants.

African American women--Northeastern States--History.

African American women.

African American women--Southern States--History.

Race relations.

History.

Northeastern States--Race relations--History--19th century.

Northeastern States.

Northeastern States--Race relations--History--20th century.

Southern States.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

252 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Putting Their Hands on Race is an intersectional and comparative labor history of Southern African American and Irish immigrant women who labored as domestic workers after migrating to Northeastern cities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Putting racial formation theory to work: a women-centered, transdisciplinary, and intersectional approach

The lost files of Irish immigration history: the Irish woman question and racialized manual labors

Southern Mammy and African American "Immigrant" women: reconstituting white supremacy after emancipation

Too Irish, too rural, too black: aka "the servant problem"

Irish immigrant women whiten themselves, African American women demand the undseen

Irish immigrant women become whiter, African American women dignify domesteic service

Conclusion: putting hands on race continues.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781978800465

1978800460

9781978800472

1978800479

OCLC:

1091292986