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Author:
Rand, Erica, 1958-
Title:
The Ellis Island snow globe / Erica Rand.
Publisher:
Duke University Press,
Copyright Date:
2005
Description:
xvii, 339 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
United States--Historiography.--Historiography.
Ethnicity--United States--Historiography.
Nationalism--United States--Historiography.
Sex role--United States--Historiography.
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States.
Souvenirs (Keepsakes)--United States.
Notes:
"A John Hope Franklin Center book"--Half t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-323) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: coming to Ellis Island -- Breeders on a golf ball : normalizing sex at Ellis Island -- Getting dressed up : the displays of Frank Woodhull and the policing of gender -- The traffic in my fantasy butch -- Green woman, race matters -- A nation of immigrants, or whatever -- Immigrant peddlers -- Product packaging -- "Decide an immigrant's fate".
ISBN:
9780822335917
0822335913 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822335788
0822335786 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)57349046
LCCN:
2004030134
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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