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Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890-1925

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From: The International Migration Review
Date: 20010101
Author:Bass, Amy; Gordon, Wendy M

Immigrant Mothers: Narratives of Race and Maternity, 1890-1925. By Katrina Irving. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. 148.

In the vein of recent work on the racial implications of immigrant history, particularly by scholars such as David Roediger and Matthew Jacobson, Katrina Irving offers a useful book that is far more concerned with ideas about immigrants than about the immigrants themselves. Based on meticulous readings of the likes of Willa Cather, Harold Frederick, Frank Norris, Jacob Riis, and Stephen Crane, Irving explores the debate that surfaced regarding ...

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