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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 neighbor, 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 honored 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 just days after the Supreme Court’s un-Libertylike decision upholding the antisodomy 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 numerous diverse ideas-about tourism, immigration history, sexuality, race, 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. Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Respect and Reverence ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Coming to Ellis Island 1 1. Breeders on a Golf Ball: Normalizing Sex at Ellis Island 41 2. Getting Dressed Up: The Displays of Frank Woodhull and the Policing of Gender 67 3. The Traffic in my Fantasy Butch 107 4. Green Woman, Race Matters 130 5. A Nation of Immigrants, or Whatever 153 6. Immigrant Peddlers 181 7. Product Packaging 207 8. "Decide an Immigrant's Fate" 239 Notes 263 Bibliography 311 Index 325...
