The Making of Mammy Pleasant: A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco - Couverture rigide

Hudson, Lynn M.

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ISBN 10 : 025202771X ISBN 13 : 9780252027710

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2002

Synopsis

In The Making of \u0022Mammy Pleasant,\u0022 Lynn M. Hudson examines the folklore of Mary Ellen Pleasant's real and imagined powers. Addressing the lack of a historical record of black women's lives, Hudson argues that the silences and mysteries of Pleasant's past, whether never recorded or intentionally omitted, reveal as much about her life as what has been documented. The Making of \u0022Mammy Pleasant\u0022 integrates fact and speculation culled from periodicals, court cases, diaries, letters, Pleasant's interviews with the San Francisco press, and various biographical and fictional accounts. Through Pleasant's remarkable life, Hudson also interrogates the constructions of race, gender, and sexuality during the formative years of California's economy and challenges popular mythology about the liberatory sexual culture of the American West.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lynn M. Hudson is an associate professor of history at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 025202771X
• ISBN 13: 9780252027710
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
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