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Author Rand, Erica, 1958- author.

Title The Ellis Island snow globe / Erica Rand
Published Durham : Duke University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 339 pages) : illustrations
Series e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Introduction: coming to Ellis Island -- Breeders on a golf ball : normalizing sex at Ellis Island -- Getting dressed up : the displays of Frank Woodhull and the policing of gender -- The traffic in my fantasy butch -- Green woman, race matters -- A nation of immigrants, or whatever -- Immigrant peddlers -- Product packaging -- "Decide an immigrant's fate."
Summary A study of the Ellis Island museum, its gift shop, and the Statue of Liberty form the basis of reflections on sex, nation, and immigration
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-323) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.)
SUBJECT Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and N.J.) fast
Subject Ethnicity -- United States -- Historiography
Nationalism -- United States -- Historiography
Sex role -- United States -- Historiography
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- United States
Souvenirs (Keepsakes) -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects
Emigration and immigration -- Historiography
Ethnicity -- Historiography
Nationalism -- Historiography
Sex role -- Historiography
Souvenirs (Keepsakes)
Nationalismus
Einwanderung
Ethnizität
Geschlechterrolle
SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Historiography
Subject United States
Ellis Island
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780822387428
0822387425