Phyllis Palmer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phyllis Palmer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phyllis |
| FAMILY NAME | Palmer |
| SIGNATURE | PALMER P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A promise and a way of life: White antiracist activism
Recognizing Racial Privilege: White Girls and Boys at National Conference of Christians and Jews Summer Camps, 1957–1974
Civil Rights histories have focused appropriately on the actions of non-White Americans to claim equal rights as Americans and to assert long-denied claims to freedom. The African-American community sparked the earliest postwar actions and its size and historic complaints made it a model for organizing in other racial minority communities. The courageous actions of African Americans who mobilized to change the country's politics and values have b…
Outside the Law: Agricultural and Domestic Workers Under the Fair Labor Standards Act
In 1966, at the end of almost two decades of civil rights agitation, men and women of color redressed one significant historical injustice—the legislative exemption of tens of thousands of farmworkers from the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which guaranteed a minimum wage and maximum hours of work for covered workers. In 1974, after almost a decade of feminist agitation, domestic workers convinced the Congress that even private household s…
To Deconstruct Race, Deconstruct Whiteness
IN FALL 1991, I LED AN AMERICAN STUDIES COURSE ENTITLED RACIALISM and Inter-racialism in American Culture and Thought. My goal was to attack current popular beliefs that in American society race is an unchanging biological and historical reality, which determines unyielding social divisions and animosities. I challenged the idea that in the United States diverse humans could be assigned to exclusive categories; instead, various peoples' ostensibl…
Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945
Separate Tribes? Working-Class and Women's History
Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945
Journal Article Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920–1945. By Phyllis Palmer. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. xviii + 214 pp. $29.95.) Get access Rosalyn Baxandall Rosalyn Baxandall State University of New York, College of Old Westbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1396, https://do…
Feminists and Domestic Workers
Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945
"Comment on Keller and Moglen's "Competition and Feminism: "Conflicts for Academic Women"
Freed from the Bonds of Womanhood
Outside the Law: Agricultural and Domestic Workers Under the Fair Labor Standards Act
In 1966, at the end of almost two decades of civil rights agitation, men and women of color redressed one significant historical injustice—the legislative exemption of tens of thousands of farmworkers from the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which guaranteed a minimum wage and maximum hours of work for covered workers. In 1974, after almost a decade of feminist agitation, domestic workers convinced the Congress that even private household s…
Feminists and Domestic Workers
To Deconstruct Race, Deconstruct Whiteness
IN FALL 1991, I LED AN AMERICAN STUDIES COURSE ENTITLED RACIALISM and Inter-racialism in American Culture and Thought. My goal was to attack current popular beliefs that in American society race is an unchanging biological and historical reality, which determines unyielding social divisions and animosities. I challenged the idea that in the United States diverse humans could be assigned to exclusive categories; instead, various peoples' ostensibl…
Separate Tribes? Working-Class and Women's History
Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945
"Comment on Keller and Moglen's "Competition and Feminism: "Conflicts for Academic Women"
Freed from the Bonds of Womanhood
Separate Tribes? Working-Class and Women's History
Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945
Journal Article Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920–1945. By Phyllis Palmer. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989. xviii + 214 pp. $29.95.) Get access Rosalyn Baxandall Rosalyn Baxandall State University of New York, College of Old Westbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Page 1396, https://do…
Feminists and Domestic Workers
Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945
Domesticity and Dirt: Housewives and Domestic Servants in the United States, 1920-1945
To Deconstruct Race, Deconstruct Whiteness
IN FALL 1991, I LED AN AMERICAN STUDIES COURSE ENTITLED RACIALISM and Inter-racialism in American Culture and Thought. My goal was to attack current popular beliefs that in American society race is an unchanging biological and historical reality, which determines unyielding social divisions and animosities. I challenged the idea that in the United States diverse humans could be assigned to exclusive categories; instead, various peoples' ostensibl…
Outside the Law: Agricultural and Domestic Workers Under the Fair Labor Standards Act
In 1966, at the end of almost two decades of civil rights agitation, men and women of color redressed one significant historical injustice—the legislative exemption of tens of thousands of farmworkers from the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which guaranteed a minimum wage and maximum hours of work for covered workers. In 1974, after almost a decade of feminist agitation, domestic workers convinced the Congress that even private household s…
Recognizing Racial Privilege: White Girls and Boys at National Conference of Christians and Jews Summer Camps, 1957–1974
Civil Rights histories have focused appropriately on the actions of non-White Americans to claim equal rights as Americans and to assert long-denied claims to freedom. The African-American community sparked the earliest postwar actions and its size and historic complaints made it a model for organizing in other racial minority communities. The courageous actions of African Americans who mobilized to change the country's politics and values have b…
A promise and a way of life: White antiracist activism
Political science (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Dirt (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)