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Author:

Phillips-Cunningham, Danielle T., author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

252 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Women household employees--United States--History--19th century.
Women household employees--United States--History--20th century.
Irish American women--Northeastern States--History.
Women immigrants--Northeastern States--History.
African American women--Northeastern States--History.
African American women--Southern States--History.
Northeastern States--History--History--19th century.
Northeastern States--History--History--20th century.
African American women.
Irish American women.
Race relations.
Women household employees.
Women immigrants.
Northeastern States.
Southern States.
United States.
1800-1999
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Conclusion: putting hands on race continues. 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.

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.

ISBN:

1978800479
9781978800472
1978800460
9781978800465

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1091292986

LCCN:

2019007524

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)