Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
ISBN-10
0252066367
ISBN-13
9780252066368
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
267
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Author
Melinda Chateauvert

Description

In this first book-length history of the women of the BSCP, Melinda Chateauvert brings to life an entire group of women ignored in previous histories of the Brotherhood and of working-class women, situating them in the debates among women's historians over the ways that race and class shape women's roles and gender relations. Chateauvert's work shows how the auxiliary, made up of the wives, daughters, and sisters of Pullman porters, used the Brotherhood to claim respectability and citizenship. Pullman maids, relegated to the auxiliary, found their problems as working women neglected in favor of the rhetoric of racial solidarity.

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