The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity / Leslie J. Harris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harris, Leslie J., 1952- author.

Series:

Rhetoric of Power and Protest Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, American.

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

United States--Civilization--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity offers a comprehensive account of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century sex trafficking rhetoric to uncover how white womanhood, as a symbolic construct, is appropriated to structure national space and belonging"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Slavery Up North: White Women's Displacement in the Wisconsin Northwoods, 1887-1889

Chapter 2. Mobility and the Danger of the City: Moral Reform in Chicago, 1907-1914

Chapter 3. The Science of Social Mobility: John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the Science of Reform, 1910-1917

Chapter 4. A National Solution: Protecting Whiteness Through the 1910 Mann Act

Chapter 5. White Slavery and Yellow Peril: Immigration and Transnational Threat

Chapter 6. White Slavery and Transnational Flow: International Sex Trafficking Activism before World War I

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781609177331