Title The rhetoric of white slavery and the making of national identity / Leslie J. Harris

Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2023] Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 240 pages) : illustrations, map Series Rhetoric of power and protest Rhetoric of power and protest Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Slavery Up North: White Women's Displacement in the Wisconsin Northwoods, 1887-1889 -- Chapter 2. Mobility and the Danger of the City: Moral Reform in Chicago, 1907-1914 -- Chapter 3. The Science of Social Mobility: John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the Science of Reform, 1910-1917 -- Chapter 4. A National Solution: Protecting Whiteness Through the 1910 Mann Act -- Chapter 5. White Slavery and Yellow Peril: Immigration and Transnational Threat Chapter 6. White Slavery and Transnational Flow: International Sex Trafficking Activism before World War I -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "At the turn of the twentieth century, the white slavery panic pervaded American politics, influencing the creation of the FBI, the enactment of immigration law, and the content of international treaties. At the core of this controversy was the maintenance of white national space. In this comprehensive account of the Progressive Era's sex trafficking rhetoric, Leslie Harris demonstrates the centrality of white womanhood, as a symbolic construct, to the structure of national space and belonging. Introducing the framework of the mobile imagination to read across different scales of the controversy--ranging from local to transnational--she establishes how the imaginative possibilities of mobility within public controversy work to constitute belonging in national space"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes 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 Jr. 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 Leslie J. Harris is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Print version record Subject Rhetoric -- United States White people -- Race identity -- United States Women, White -- United States -- History -- 20th century National characteristics, American. Prostitution -- United States -- History -- 20th century Slavery -- United States -- History -- 20th century Human trafficking -- United States -- History -- 20th century LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General SUBJECT United States -- Civilization -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139942 Subject United States. Genre/Form Electronic books History. Form Electronic book Author Project Muse. distributor. LC no. 2022043344 ISBN 9781609177331 1609177339 9781628954999 162895499X

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