Scarlett's Sisters explores the meaning of nineteenth-century southern womanhood from the vantage point of the celebrated fictional character's flesh-and-blood counterparts: young; elite; white women. Anya Jabour demonstrates that southern girls and young women faced a major turning point when the Civil War forced them to assume new roles and responsibilities as independent women. Examining the lives of more than 300 girls and women between ages fifteen and twenty-five; Jabour traces the socialization of southern white ladies from early adolescence through young adulthood. Amidst the upheaval of the Civil War; Jabour shows; elite young women; once reluctant to challenge white supremacy and male dominance; became more rebellious. They adopted the ideology of Confederate independence in shaping a new model of southern womanhood that eschewed dependence on slave labor and male guidance.By tracing the lives of young white women in a society in flux; Jabour reveals how the South's old social order was maintained and a new one created as southern girls and young women learned; questioned; and ultimately changed what it meant to be a southern lady.
#729281 in Books Paul A Kramer 2006-04-17Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.10 x 1.50 x 6.10l; 1.71 #File Name: 0807856533552 pagesThe Blood of Government Race Empire the United States and the Philippines
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Excellent Transnational historyBy Shawn M. WarswickPaul Kramer earned his BA at Johns Hopkins and his Ph.D. at Princeton under Daniel Rodgers. Currently Dr. Kramer teaches courses at both the graduate and undergraduate level at Vanderbilt University. Kramer argues that in order to understand how empire makes race and how race helps to shape empire. Furthermore; his thesis is that “it was not simply that difference made empire possible: empire remade difference in the process.†(3)The work revolves around six themes: firstly the status of the Philippines as a “twice-colonized country†and the central role of the Spanish colonial period in understanding the period of American colonialism. (28) A second theme in race-making is the Philippine-American War as “the foundational moment of twentieth-century Philippine-American history.†(28) The third theme is the role Filipino’s played in creating the colonial state. (29) Fourth is “the tension between metropolitan and colonial perspectives on empire.†(30) Fifth is dialogue between colonial administrators and Filipino political leaders about control and representation and sixth is the “intersection of the politics of colonialism; nationalism and migration.†(30-31) The narrative begins; as Kramer says; not in Washington or Manila but in Madrid in 1887 at the grand Philippine Exposition. Interestingly the author mentions how racial difference was; on the one hand; based on geography (where one was born) and on the other hand with “blood mixture. A third line of difference was based on belonging (or not belonging) to Hispanic Catholic civilization. Chapter two deals with the Philippine-American war as a race war: “one in which imperial soldiers came to understand indigenous combatants and noncombatants in racial terms; one in which race played a key role in bounding and inbounding the means of colonial violence; and in whig those means were justified along racial lines.†(89) While chapter three looks at the issue of “collaboration and the racial stateâ€; chapter four deals with the messages sent out by the St. Louis World’s Fair. Kramer notes that the Philippine exhibit at the fair “did convey hegemonic messages about race; capitalism; and U.S. national superiority.†(230) Chapter five deals with the “politics of nation building†and how the American colonial masters “insisted that only they had the power to build and recognize a true Philippine nation…†(288) Finally chapter six deals with the “Philippine invasion†of the US specifically but; broadly; the idea of America turning its face westward to the Orient. In doing so; this chapter mentions important events in US racial history such as the Chinese exclusion and the exclusion of Japanese students from San Francisco schools early in the 20th century. (349)Kramers sources; as one would expect in a book that contains over 500 pages; are extensive. The bibliography is approximately twenty pages and forty-three pages of footnotes. Not only did the author spend time at the National Archives and the Smithsonian Institution; but he also used the Newberry Library; the US Military History Institute and the Bancroft Library at the University of California; Berkeley. The author also spent time at the Balaguer Library in Spain and the Lopez Memorial Museum in Manila. Finally he made extensive use of newspapers and periodicals; government documents and other non-governmental primary sources; as well as a vast array of secondary literature.The historiographical significance of this work in US history is how the author sheds new light on an often overlooked war and aspect of US imperialism; and he is doing so using a transnational lens. As many works have done over the last decade or so; Kramer also notes that not only did the metropole effect the colony; but the colony effected the metropole as well.I have no quibbles with this work. While much of it might be known to specialists; this work truly sheds light on Philippine-American history and the role race plays in the construction of Empire. As such it will be very useful to those attempting to teach a college level survey course on US history who wish to discuss American imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th century. The narrative itself is easy to follow and written with a clear voice. The only problem is the size of the work might throw off some readers; but once they start reading they will find those worries are unfounded. It is easy to read thanks to the narrative style and will keep you engaged to the end.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Brilliant documentation of the UBy CustomerBrilliant documentation of the U.S. racial politics in the 1880's and the 1980's. From Jim Crow to the Dawes Act to Chinese exclusion Act. A companion book should be James Bradley; "The Imperial Cruise; a Secret History of Empire and War". Read more of Teddy Roosevelt's imperialist ventures...Teddy Roosevelt in the Century Magazine: We should annex Hawaii immediately. It was a crime against the United States; it was a crime against white civilization; not to annex it two years and a half ago..." p.162 Another book would be "The Forbidden Book; The Philippine -American War in Political Cartoons" by Abe Ignacio; Enrique de laCruz; Jorge Emmanual and Helen Toribio.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Three StarsBy William D. PonderI sent it to the Bacolod Public Library; Bacolod City; Negros. Philippines.
