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9780822335788

Ellis Island Snow Globe

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  • ISBN13:

    9780822335788

  • ISBN10:

    0822335786

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-10-30
  • Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

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In The Ellis Island Snow Globe, Erica Rand, author of the smart and entertaining book Barbie's Queer Accessories, takes readers on an unconventional tour of Ellis Island, the migration station turned heritage museum, and its neighbour, the Statue of Liberty. By pausing to reflect on what is and is not on display at these two iconic national monuments, Rand focuses attention on whose heritage is honoured and whose obscured. She also reveals the shifting connections between sex, money, material products, and ideas of the nation in everything from the ostensible father-mother-child configuration on an Ellis Island golf ball purchased at the gift shop to the multi-million dollar July 4, 1986 Liberty Weekend extravaganza celebrating the Statue's centennial birthday just days after the Supreme Court's un-Libertylike ruling to uphold the anti-sodomy laws challenged in Bowers v. Hardwick.Rand notes that portrayals of the Statue of Liberty as a beacon for immigrants tend to suppress the Statue's connections to people brought to this country by force. She examines what happened to migrants at Ellis Island whose bodies did not match the gender suggested by the clothing they wore. In light of contemporary ideas about safety and security, she examines the "Decide an Immigrant's Fate" program, which has visitors to Ellis Island act as a 1910 board of inspectors hearing the appeal of an immigrant about to be excluded from the country. Rand is a witty, insightful, and open-minded tour guide, able to synthesize a lot of ideas-about tourism, immigration history, sexuality, ethnicity, commodity culture, and global capitalism-and to candidly convey her delight in her Ellis Island snow globe. And pen. And lighter. And back scratcher. And golf ball. And glittery pink key chain.Erica Rand is Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Chair of Women and Gender Studies at Bates College. She is the author of Barbie's Queer Accessories.

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Erica Rand is Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Chair of Women and Gender Studies at Bates College

Table of Contents

Preface: Respect and Reverencep. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xv
Introduction: Coming to Ellis Islandp. 1
Breeders on a Golf Ball: Normalizing Sex at Ellis Islandp. 41
Getting Dressed Up: The Displays of Frank Woodhull and the Policing of Genderp. 67
The Traffic in my Fantasy Butchp. 107
Green Woman, Race Mattersp. 130
A Nation of Immigrants, or Whateverp. 153
Immigrant Peddlersp. 181
Product Packagingp. 207
"Decide an Immigrant's Fate"p. 239
Notesp. 263
Bibliographyp. 311
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