Description: Explores gender and race as principal bases of identity and locations of power and oppression in American history.
Review Quotes: All the chapters are thoroughly researched, well written, and carefully situated in relevant historiography. . . . If this is any indication of what the editors at the press have in mind for the future [of this new series], then readers and scholars of US history have a great deal to look forward to.--Louise Newman "JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY"