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Immigrant mothers : narratives of race and maternity, 1890-1925 Katrina Irving
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HQ1419.I75 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Irving, Katrina.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers--United States--Public opinion--History.
- Mothers.
- Xenophobia--United States--History.
- Xenophobia.
- Immigrants in literature--History.
- Immigrants in literature.
- Women immigrants--United States--Public opinion--History.
- Women immigrants.
- United States--Ethnic relations--History.
- United States.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--Public opinion--History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 148 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2000.
- Contents:
- Introduction : amazing racial hybrids and ethnic horrors : race and the immigrant woman, 1890-1925
- Rediscovered "problem" : engendering the "new" immigrant
- Flouting the "racial border" : nativism, eugenics, and the sexualized immigrant woman
- President Roosevelt visits Ellis Island : racial economics and biological parsimony
- Sentimental ambitions : Americanization and the "isolated and alien" mother
- "Eternal" mothers : cultural pluralism, primitivism, and the triumph of difference.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-142) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Institute Library and Archives
- ISBN:
- 0252068580 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0252025342 (cloth : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 41528365
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