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The rhetoric of white slavery and the making of national identity
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"The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity offers a comprehensive account of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century sex trafficking rhetoric to uncover how white womanh...
"The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity offers a comprehensive account of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century sex trafficking rhetoric to uncover how white womanhood, as a symbolic construct, is appropriated to structure national space and belonging"--
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- Creator
- Leslie J. Harris
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2023]
- Physical Details
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- xxvi, 240 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1611864593, 9781628964950, 9781609177331, 1609177339, 9781611864595, 9781628954999, 162895499X, 1628964952
- OCLC
- on1353290628, on1379266264
- Slavery up north: women's displacement in the Wisconsin Northwoods, 1887-1889 -- Mobility and the danger of the city: moral reform in Chicago , 1907-1914 -- The science of social mobility: John D. Rockefeller and the science of reform, 1910-1917 -- A national solution: protecting Whiteness through the 1910 Mann Act -- White slavery and yellow peril: Immigration and transnational threat -- White slavery and transnational flow: International sex trafficking activism before World War I.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects
- Human trafficking -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Slavery -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Prostitution -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- National characteristics, American.
- Women, White -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- White people -- Race identity -- United States.
- United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
- Rhetoric -- United States.