New Directions in United States Family History
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-54259-1 (ISBN)
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This book provides students with a brief, accessible introduction to new scholarship in US family history, from the colonial era to the present.
Designed for classroom use, chapters address issues of religion, politics, and the shifting relationship between the family and the state. They offer a nuanced look at how scholars are engaging with family history in the first quarter of the twenty-first century: the sources they use, the questions they ask, the themes they consider, and the new perspectives they bring to this work. Each chapter provides a richly contextualized snapshot of a variety of families in various times and places with particular emphasis on the perspectives of African American, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, poor, working-class, and queer families. Taken together, these reveal many new directions in the field of family history, illuminating key aspects of the development in American families from a variety of viewpoints.
Demonstrating the ongoing political significance of the family across time and place in US history, as well as the continued resilience and resourcefulness of families, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of gender, sexuality, marriage, childhood, feminism, imperialism, religion, and politics in the Unites States.
Sarah Potter is an associate professor of history at the University of Memphis. She writes about family, gender, and sexuality and is the author of Everybody Else: Adoption and the Politics of Domestic Diversity in Postwar America (University of Georgia Press, 2014).
Introduction: Reconsidering Family History PART I: POLITICS: RETHINKING KINSHIP, RETHINKING HOUSEHOLDS 1. Sons, Cousins, and Caciques: Breaking and Remaking Kinship Ties in Indigenous Florida 2. Family and Motherhood in a New Nation PART II: INTERSECTIONS: RACE, POWER, AND FAMILY 3. Defining Home and Family among the Enslaved and the Enslavers 4. Domesticating Race: Household Labor and the Construction of Whiteness in Northern, Urban, Middle-Class Families, 1830-1880 5. Native American Families and the Boarding School System PART III: RESOURCES: WORKING-CLASS AND IMMIGRANT FAMILIES 6. Family Resources in the Progressive-Era United States 7. "More Than Bedtime Stories": Women Making and Relating the History of the Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Family Experience in America PART IV: PRECARITY: FAMILIES AS SITES OF OPPRESSION AND LIBERATION 8. "Blessed Are the Barren:" Black Queer Women's Critiques of Motherhood and Reproduction in the Early Twentieth Century 9. The Family and White Supremacy in the Jim Crow South: Racist Republican Motherhood 10. Forbidden Families, Outlaw Lives: Blue Lunden and her Family in Pre-Stonewall America PART V: CRITIQUE: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ON FAMILIES AND POLICIES 11. Feminism and Family 12. The New Right, Christianity, and Family Values 13. Closing: Past and Present Families Bibliography Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.6.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New Directions in History |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-54259-4 / 1032542594 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-54259-1 / 9781032542591 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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