Unequal Freedom

How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor

Bibliographic Data

ID19944151
AuthorsEvelyn Nakano Glenn (corresponding author)
Year2004
Pages320
Publication date2004-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byUnequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor, Kate Masur, 2004
Reviewed byUnequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor, Edna Bonacich, 2003
Reviewed byUnequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor, Donna R Gabaccia, 2003
VenueUnequal Freedom (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherHarvard University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.4159/9780674037649
OpenAlexW4298375875
Open LibraryOL29569827M
ISBN9780674037649
LanguageEN
Citations received311

The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a unique comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II. During this era the country experienced enormous social and economic changes with the abolition of slavery, rapid territorial expansion, and massive immigration, and struggled over the meaning of free labor and the essence of citizenship as people who previously had been excluded sought the promise of economic freedom and full political rights. After a lucid overview of the concepts of the free worker and the independent citizen at the national level, Glenn vividly details how race and gender issues framed the struggle over labor and citizenship rights at the local level between blacks and whites in the South, Mexicans and Anglos in the Southwest, and Asians and haoles (the white planter class) in Hawaii. She illuminates the complex interplay of local and national forces in American society and provides a dynamic view of how labor and citizenship were defined, enforced, and contested in a formative era for white-nonwhite relations in America

Citizenship · Development economics · Immigration · Inequality · Meaning (existential) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · White (mutation) · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society · Alien labor · Arbeitswelt · Burgerschap · Citoyenneté · Civil rights · Economic conditions · employment · Foreign workers · Gesellschaft · History · Immigranten · Immigrantes · Immigrants · Minorités · Minorities · Minorities, employment · race relations · Rassenbeziehung · Social conditions · Travail · united states · Vrouwen · Women alien labor · Women foreign workers

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