The Men and Women We Want: Gender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate

by Jeanne D. Petit

Book Overview

Examines the gendered dimension of Progressive-Era debates about literacy and immigration in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.

Should immigrants have to pass a literacy test in order to enter the United States? Progressive-Era Americans debated this question for more than twenty years, and by the time the literacy test became law in 1917, the debate had transformed the way Americans understood immigration, and created the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580464416
• ISBN13: 9781580464413
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"