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The Ellis Island snow globe
- Title
- The Ellis Island snow globe / Erica Rand.
- Author
- Rand, Erica, 1958-
- Publication
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2005.
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Details
- Description
- xvii, 339 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Ellis Island snowglobe
- Subjects
- Nationalism > United States > Historiography
- Sex role > United States > Historiography
- Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
- Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > United States
- Ethnicity > United States > Historiography
- United States > Emigration and immigration > Historiography
- Souvenirs (Keepsakes) > United States
- Note
- "A John Hope Franklin Center book"--Half t.p.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-323) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: coming to Ellis Island -- Breeders on a golf ball : normalizing sex at Ellis Island -- Getting dressed up : the displays of Frank Woodhull and the policing of gender -- The traffic in my fantasy butch -- Green woman, race matters -- A nation of immigrants, or whatever -- Immigrant peddlers -- Product packaging -- "Decide an immigrant's fate".
- Call Number
- IRM (Ellis Island) 05-6966
- ISBN
- 0822335786 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822335913 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004030134
- OCLC
- 57349046
- Author
- Rand, Erica, 1958-
- Title
- The Ellis Island snow globe / Erica Rand.
- Imprint
- Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-323) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- IRM (Ellis Island) 05-6966