A01=Nancy A Hewitt
Author_Nancy A Hewitt
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- ISBN 9780252071911
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Dec 2003
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Linked to the Caribbean and southern Europe as well as to the Confederacy, the Cigar City of Tampa, Florida, never fit comfortably into the biracial mold of the New South. Nancy A. Hewitt explores the interactions among distinct groups of women--native-born white, African American, Cuban and Italian immigrant women--that shaped women's activism in the vibrant, multiethnic city.
Hewitt emphasizes the process by which women forged and reformulated their activist identities from Reconstruction through the U.S. declaration of war against Spain in April 1898, the industrywide cigar strike of 1901, and the emergence of progressive reform and labor militancy. She also recasts our understanding of southern history by demonstrating how Tampa's triracial networks alternately challenged and re-inscribed the South's biracial social and political order.
Nancy A. Hewitt is an emerita professor of history and women's studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Women's Activism and Social Change: Rochester, New York, 1822-1872 and coeditor of Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism.
