Title Putting their hands on race : Irish immigrant and Southern Black domestic workers / Danielle T. Phillips-Cunningham

Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 252 pages) : illustrations, portraits Contents Putting racial formation theory to work: a women-centered, transdisciplinary, and intersectional approach -- The lost files of Irish immigration history: the Irish woman question and racialized manual labors -- Southern Mammy and African American "Immigrant" women: reconstituting white supremacy after emancipation -- Too Irish, too rural, too black: aka "the servant problem" -- Irish immigrant women whiten themselves, African American women demand the undseen -- Irish immigrant women become whiter, African American women dignify domesteic service -- Conclusion: putting hands on race continues Summary "Putting Their Hands on Race is an intersectional and comparative labor history of Southern African American and Irish immigrant women who labored as domestic workers after migrating to Northeastern cities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-243) and index Notes Print version record; online resource viewed December 22, 2021 Subject Women household employees -- United States -- History -- 19th century Women household employees -- United States -- History -- 20th century Irish American women -- Northeastern States -- History Women immigrants -- Northeastern States -- History African American women -- Northeastern States -- History African American women -- Southern States -- History African American women Irish American women Race relations Women household employees Women immigrants SUBJECT Northeastern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century Northeastern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century Subject Northeastern States Southern States United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781978800489 1978800487 9781978800502 1978800509

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