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Author Sanders Johnson, Grace, author.

Title White gloves, Black nation : women, citizenship, and political wayfaring in Haiti / Grace Sanders Johnson
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
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Description 1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations
Series Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
Contents Introduction -- Chapter One. Rites of passage -- A bridge -- Chapter Two. Publishing rights -- A pilgrimage -- Chapter Three. The right sex: political geographies of Haitian womanhood -- Chapter Four. Stage right: Pan-American pageantry, diasporic performance, and feminist play -- A feeling -- Chapter Five. The right candidate: gender, race, and political violence -- Conclusion: Filling the bottom right cabinet -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography-- Index
Summary "This transnational history of gender and radical politics during and after the US occupation of Haiti follows a cohort of Haitian women from Haiti through the Caribbean to the United States, Canada, and the Belgian Congo. Grace Sanders Johnson uses this group of women to explore how gender, national, and racial identities were forged among elite and middle class women"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Social classes -- Haiti -- History -- 20th century
Women -- Political activity -- Haiti -- History -- 20th century
Women -- Political activity.
Social classes.
Politics and government.
SUBJECT Haiti -- History -- 1934-1986. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058361
Haiti -- Politics and government -- 1934-1971. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85058368
Subject Haiti.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469673707
1469673703