The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
10 best books like The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Margot Canaday): Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars
| Author | Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0140235507 |
This ground-breaking book traces the emergence and growth of a lesbian community in Buffalo, New York, from the mid-1930s to the early 1960s. Based on thirteen years of research and drawing upon the oral histories of forty-five women, authors Kennedy and Davis explore butch-femme roles, coming out,...
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
| Author | Danielle L. McGuire |
Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against black women by white men.
Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet...
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Author | Benedict Anderson |
| ISBN | 0860915468 |
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many studies have been written on nationalist political movements, the sense of nationality--the personal and cultural feeling of belonging to a nation--has not received proportionate attention. In this widely...
| Author | George Chauncey |
| ISBN | 0465026214 |
The award-winning, field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century
Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Drawing on a rich trove of...
| Author | Gail Bederman |
| ISBN | 0226041395 |
When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it "for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a negro." Jeffries, though, was trounced....
| Author | Dipesh Chakrabarty |
| ISBN | 0691130019 |
First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues,...
| Author | Jennifer L. Morgan |
| ISBN | 0812218736 |
When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery,...
| Author | Tiya Miles |
| ISBN | 0520250028 |
This beautifully written book tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. It is the story of Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer, and Doll, an African slave he acquired in the late 1790s. Over the next thirty years, Shoe Boots and Doll lived together as master...
| Author | David K. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0226401901 |
The McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent American history. But while the famous question, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" resonated in the halls of Congress, security officials were posing another question at least...
Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars
| Author | Kristin L. Hoganson |
| ISBN | 0300085540 |
This groundbreaking book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Kristin L. Hoganson shows how gendered ideas about citizenship and political leadership influenced jingoist political leaders`...
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
| Author | C. Riley Snorton |
| ISBN | 1517901723 |
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their...
Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan
| Author | Kim Phillips-Fein |
| ISBN | 0393059308 |
Starting in the mid-1930s, a handful of prominent American businessmen forged alliances with the aim of rescuing America--and their profit margins--from socialism and the "nanny state." Long before the "culture wars" usually associated with the rise of conservative politics, these driven individuals...
At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
| Author | Erika Lee |
| ISBN | 0807854484 |
With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of U.S. immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in...
A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida
| Author | N. D. B. Connolly |
| ISBN | 0226115143 |
Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for reshaping American cities in the postwar period. In A World More Concrete, N. D. B. Connolly uses the history of South Florida to unearth an older and far more...
