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The Ellis Island Snow Globe
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Erica Rand
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English
Published/Copyright:
2005
About this book
A study of the Ellis Island museum, its gift shop, and the Statue of Liberty form the basis of reflections on sex, nation, and immigration.
Author / Editor information
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, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews
“The Ellis Island Snow Globe is a wonderfully creative, playful, and serious piece of scholarship. Demonstrating that pleasure and critique need not be incompatible, Erica Rand offers not only a model for thinking about contemporary capitalism but a way to live in it.”—Miranda Joseph, author of Against the Romance of Community
“The Ellis Island Snow Globe is quite simply a great book. Destined to become a classic in contemporary cultural studies, it is one of the few books I’ve read in the last year or so that has taught me something new on every page.”—Henry Jenkins, coeditor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture
“Much as she did in her earlier book, Barbie’s Queer Accessories, Erica Rand turns a kitsch artifact of consumer culture into a powerful tool for cultural analysis. In this insightful and engaging new work, she transforms an Ellis Island snow globe into a window through which we see how state control of borders and migrations structures sexuality, gender, desire, and family in unexpected ways. One of the best cultural studies books I’ve read in a long time.”—Susan Stryker, producer and codirector of Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria
“Rand clearly demonstrates how the categories of liberty and citizenship depend precisely on particular kinds of exclusions—those individuals whose sexual identities and behaviors do not correspond with the dominant gendering and sexualizing of the statue herself.”
-- Sarah Banet-Weiser American Quarterly
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
September 7, 2005
eBook ISBN:
9780822387428
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
360
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24 b&w photos
