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The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate (Gender and Race in American History)
Jeanne D. Petit
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Description for The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate (Gender and Race in American History)
Paperback. Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate. Series: Gender and Race in American History. 214 pages, black & white illustrations. Examines the gendered dimension of Progressive-Era debates about literacy and immigration in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century America. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight: 298.
Examines the gendered dimension of Progressive-Era debates about literacy and immigration in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Should immigrants have to pass a literacy test in order to enter the United States? Progressive-Era Americans debated this question for more than twenty years, and by the time the literacy test became law in 1917, the debate had transformed the way Americans understood immigration, and created the logic that shaped immigration restriction policies throughout the twentieth century. Jeanne Petit argues that the literacy test debate was about much more than reading ability or the virtues of education. It also ... Read more
Examines the gendered dimension of Progressive-Era debates about literacy and immigration in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. Should immigrants have to pass a literacy test in order to enter the United States? Progressive-Era Americans debated this question for more than twenty years, and by the time the literacy test became law in 1917, the debate had transformed the way Americans understood immigration, and created the logic that shaped immigration restriction policies throughout the twentieth century. Jeanne Petit argues that the literacy test debate was about much more than reading ability or the virtues of education. It also ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
Number of Pages
214
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9781580464413
SKU
V9781580464413
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Reviews for The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate (Gender and Race in American History)
Jeanne D. Petit's new monograph on Progressive Era debates over immigration restriction through the lens of the literary test is a well-researched, thoughtful, and provocative addition to the historiography. Petit is one of the first historians of this subject to focus on the intersection of gender and race as central, intertwined elements in the arguments for and against immigrant restriction. ... Read more