Shirley J Yee

Biographic Data

ID1403231
NAMEShirley J Yee
GIVEN NAMESShirley J
FAMILY NAMEYee
SIGNATUREYEE S J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Washington
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Maria W. Stewart: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth-Century Black Abolitionist. By Douglas A. Jones

    Shirley J YeeARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2025

    Douglas A. Jones' collection of Maria W. Stewart's speeches and writings provides a broader context for the world in which she moved as a free Black woman. The selections spotlight her daily experiences, as well as her meditations on antebellum race and gender politics. Like other free-born Blacks at the time, Stewart risked enslavement regardless of where she resided, especially after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. To shed greater light on the …

  • Undertaking Pittsburgh: The Makings of the Casket Industry in the Steel City, 1865–1910

    Open AccessShirley J Yee, Shirley YeeARTICLEPennsylvania History A Journal of…2022

    For more than a century, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has enjoyed the well-deserved reputation for its leading role in US steel production as well as iron, glass, and coal mining. The names Carnegie, Frick, and Westinghouse still resonate in the public imagination and in popular and academic writing. Less well known are businesses that either did not carry long-term name recognition or eventually moved out of the Pittsburgh area yet were important m…

  • Gender Ideology and Black Women as Community-Builders in Ontario, 1850–70

    Open AccessShirley J YeeARTICLECanadian Historical Review2021

  • Sister Societies: Women's Antislavery Organizations in Antebellum America by Beth A. Salerno

    Open AccessShirley J YeeARTICLEGender & History2008

  • Dependency and Opportunity: Socioeconomic Relations between Chinese and Non-Chinese in New York City, 1870-1943

    Open AccessShirley J YeeARTICLEJournal of Urban History2007References: 12

    This article explores the work environment as a site for interactions between Chinese and non-Chinese in New York City between 1870 and 1943. A gendered and racially stratified paid labor force, shaped by federal immigration restriction laws, migration and settlement patterns to and within New York City, state occupational restrictions, and the development of a skilled white male urban working class, created the economic conditions within which t…

  • Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism

    Shirley J Yee, Joyce A HansonARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2004

    McLeod Bethune was a significant figure in American political history. She devoted her life to advancing equal social, economic, and political rights for blacks. She distinguished herself by creating lasting institutions that trained black women for visible and expanding public leadership roles. Few have been as effective in the development of women s leadership for group advancement. Despite her accomplishments, the means, techniques, and action…

  • Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America

    Shirley J Yee, Carol Dixon et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1999

    Journal Article Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America. By Chris Dixon. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. xiv, 322 pp. $45.00, ISBN 1-55849-068-X.) Get access Shirley J. Yee Shirley J. Yee University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Pages 1592–1593, https://doi…

  • The Past, Present, and Future of Affirmative Action: AHA Roundtable, January 1998

    Shirley J Yee, E Boris et al.ARTICLENWSA Journal1998

    The Coordinating Council of Women Historians and the Association of Black Women Historians jointly sponsored a roundtable on affirmative action at the January 1998 meeting of the American Historical Association in Seattle, Washington. The panelists whose contributions are published here deal with the historical origins of affirmative action, its effect on government employment of black and white women, and the current situation for black women in…

  • Establishing an International Doctoral Program in Women Studies at the University of Washington

    Shirley J Yee, Shirley YeeARTICLEFeminist Studies1998Cited by: 1

    Shirley Yee, Establishing an International Doctoral Program in Women Studies at the University of Washington, Feminist Studies, Vol. 24, No. 2, Disciplining Feminism? The Future of Women's Studies (Summer, 1998), pp. 366-373

  • Finding a Place: Mary Ann Shadd Cary and the Dilemmas of Black Migration to Canada, 1850-1870

    Shirley J YeeARTICLEFrontiers A Journal of Women…1997Cited by: 1

    L'A. porte son attention sur l'attitude de Mary Ann Shadd, une militante abolitionniste, envers les migrations vers le Canada des noirs americains fuyant l'esclavage survenues entre 1850 et 1870. Il examine le role de Shadd dans le debat au Canada sur l'immigration noire. Il s'efforce de mettre en lumiere les contradictions inherentes aussi bien a la perspective de Shadd qu'au mouvement en faveur de l'immigration des noirs. Il montre que Shadd s'…

  • The "Women" in Women's Studies

    Shirley J YeeARTICLEdifferences1997Cited by: 2References: 5

    Research Article| November 01 1997 The "Women" in Women's Studies Shirley J. Yee Shirley J. Yee shirley j. yee is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Women Studies at the University of Washington. Her most recent publications include Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828–1860 (University of Tennessee Press, 1992) and "Finding a Place: Mary Ann Shadd Cary and the Dilemmas of Black Migration to Canada, 1850–1870" in Fr…

  • Freedom at Risk: The Kidnapping of Free Blacks in America, 1780-1865

    Shirley J Yee, Carol WilsonARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1995Cited by: 1

  • The Early Black Press in America, 1827 to 1860.

    Shirley J Yee, Frankie HuttonARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article The Early Black Press in America, 1827 to 1860. By Frankie Hutton. (Westport: Greenwood, 1993. xviii, 182 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-313-28696-5.) Get access Shirley J. Yee Shirley J. Yee University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June 1994, Pages 268–269, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081056 Published: 01 June 1994

  • Gender Ideology and Black Women as Community‐Builders in Ontario, 1850–70

    Open AccessShirley J YeeARTICLECanadian Historical Review1994

  • Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860

    Wendy Hamand Venet, Shirley J Yee et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1993

  • Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860

    John Sekora, Shirley J Yee et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1993Cited by: 1

  • Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860

    Emma Jones Lapsansky, Shirley J YeeARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1993

  • Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828-1860

    Julie Winch, Shirley J YeeARTICLEJournal of American History1993Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Black Women Abolitionists: A Study in Activism, 1828–1860. By ShirleyJ. Yee. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992. xii + 204 pp. Cloth, $34.95, ISBN0-87049-735-9. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-87049-736-7.) Get access Julie Winch Julie Winch University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, …

  • Neither Ballots nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War

    Shirley J Yee, Wendy Hamand Venet et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Neither Ballots nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War. By Wendy Hamand Venet. (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1991. xiv + 210 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8139-1342-X.) and Mary Grew: Abolitionist and Feminist (1813–1896). By Ira V. Brown. (Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1991. 214 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-945636-20-2.) Get access Shirley J. Yee Shirley J. Yee University of Washington Search for other works by this author …