{"id":3154,"date":"2009-11-14T05:19:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T05:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2013-02-26T04:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-26T04:23:00","slug":"louisa-may-alcott-on-race-sex-and-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3154","title":{"rendered":"Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upne.com\/1-55553-308-6.html\" target=\"_blank\">Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Northeastern University Press<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.upne.com\" target=\"_blank\">University Press of New England<\/a><br \/>\n1997<br \/>\n160 pages<br \/>\nEAN: 978-1-55553-307-6<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisa_May_Alcott\" target=\"_blank\">Louisa May Alcott<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edited by<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/history.binghamton.edu\/faculty\/elbert.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sarah Elbert<\/strong><\/a>, Professor Emerita of History<br \/>\n<em>The State University of New York, Binghamton<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upne.com\/1-55553-308-6.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upne.com\/images\/1555533086.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The passionate supporter of abolition and women&#8217;s rights speaks out on the most controversial issues of the day.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisa_May_Alcott\" target=\"_blank\">Louisa May Alcott<\/a> championed women&#8217;s causes in gothic tales of interracial romance and in newspaper articles published during the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War<\/a>. Drawn from her service as a nurse in a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Union_(American_Civil_War)\" target=\"_blank\">Union<\/a> hospital as well as from her radical abolitionist activities, <strong>these writings allow Alcott to comment boldly on unstable racial identities, interracial sex and marriage, armed slave rebellion, war, and the links between the bondage of slaves and the conditions of white womanhood.<\/strong> A comprehensive introduction situates Alcott and her family within the network of antebellum reformers and unmasks her personal and literary struggles with the boundaries of race, sex, and class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery Northeastern University Press University Press of New England 1997 160 pages EAN: 978-1-55553-307-6 Louisa May Alcott Edited by Sarah Elbert, Professor Emerita of History The State University of New York, Binghamton The passionate supporter of abolition and women&#8217;s rights speaks out on the most controversial issues of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,459,1196,8,6940,20,25],"tags":[1165,30,1164,1166,945],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-books","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-usa","category-women","tag-louisa-may-alcott","tag-miscegenation","tag-northeastern-university-press","tag-sarah-elbert","tag-university-press-of-new-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}