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GENDER RACE ETHNICITY & POWER ed. G. Gordinier

Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Maritime America
Papers from the Conference Held at Mystic Seaport
September 2006
Edited by Glenn S. Gordinier

These twelve papers by a variety of scholars offer a wide range of ways in which gender, race, and ethnicity are entwined and redefined in the context of the sea:

  1. ”Make Haste & Let Me See You With a Good Cargo of Negroes”: Gender, Power, and the Centrality of Violence within the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Trade, by Sowande’ Mustakeem

  2. Beyond Reservation: Indians, Maritime Labor, and Communities of Color from Eastern Long Island Sound, 1713-1861 by Jason R. Mancini

  3. Possibilities and Limits for Freedom: Maritime Fugitives in British North America, ca. 1713-1783, by Charles R. Foy

  4. Enslaved Underwater Divers in the Atlantic World, by Kevin Dawson

  5. Ambassador in the Forecastle: The Reflections of an American Seaman Abroad, by Brian Rouleau

  6. ”I never had any better fighters”: Black Sailors in the United States Navy during the War of 1812, by Lauren McCormack, Anne Grimes Rand, and Kristin L. Gallas

  7. Citizens, Sailors, and Slaves, by Bryan Sinche

  8. Feeding “La Boca del Puerto”: Chileans and the Maritime Origins of San Francisco, by Edward D. Melillo

  9. Black Ahab of the Bay: William T. Shorey and the San Francisco Whale Fishery, by Timothy G. Lynch

  10. ”Hands full with the Chinese”: Maritime Dimensions of the Chinese-American Experience, 1870-1943, by Joshua M. Smith

  11. Sharing the Work: Biloxi Women in the Seafood Industry, by Deanne Stephens Nuwer

  12. The Junior Outing Club, Nisei Identity, and the Terminal Island Fishing Community, by Karen Jenks

This publication is made possible by a grant from the Connecticut Humanities Council.

ISBN: 978-0-939511-27-3
Paperback
Size: 9” x 6”
250 pages

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