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.
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