Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor

By Evelyn Nakano Glenn

Book Overview

The inequalities that persist in America have deep historical roots. Evelyn Nakano Glenn untangles this complex history in a comparative regional study from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of World War II. During this era the country experienced enormous social and economic changes with the abolition of slavery, rapid territorial expansion, and massive immigration, and struggled over the meaning of free labor and the essence of citizenship as people who previously had been excluded sought the promise of economic freedom and full political rights.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674007328
• ISBN13: 9780674007321
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.5" x 6.5"