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Putting their hands on race : Irish immigrant and Southern Black domestic workers

Phillips-Cunningham, Danielle T. (author.).

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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781978800465
ISBN: 1978800460
ISBN: 9781978800472
ISBN: 1978800479
Physical Description: print
vii, 252 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-243) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Putting racial formation theory to work: a women-centered, transdisciplinary, and intersectional approach -- 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.