The Mark of Slavery: Disability, Race, and Gender in Antebellum America 0252052617, 9780252052613

Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race 9781479855049

In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understoo

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The Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America 146961815X, 9781469618159

In the fight for equality, early feminists often cited the infantilization of women and men of color as a method used to

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The Imperfect Revolution: Anthony Burns and the Landscape of Race in Antebellum America 1606350692, 9781606350690

Gripping re-examination of the rendition of Anthony Burns On June 2, 1854, crowds lined the streets of Boston, hissin

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New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America 9780813115719, 9780813150833

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The Debate Over Slavery: Antislavery and Proslavery Liberalism in Antebellum America 9780814722909

Frederick Douglass and George Fitzhugh disagreed on virtually every major issue of the day. On slavery, women's rig

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Toxic Diversity: Race, Gender, and Law Talk in America 9780814786598

Toxic Diversity offers an invigorating view of race, gender, and law in America. Analyzing the work of preeminent legal

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Frankie and Johnny: Race, Gender, and the Work of African American Folklore in 1930s America 9781477312094

Originating in a homicide in St. Louis in 1899, the ballad of “Frankie and Johnny” became one of America’s most familiar

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Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South 9798890887139

It is impossible to separate histories of sexual violence and the enslavement of Black women in the antebellum South. Ra

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The Business of Letters: Authorial Economies in Antebellum America 9781503626782

Traditionally, scholars of authorship in antebellum America have approached their subject through the lens of profession

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The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America 9781501702266

Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement"

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