Introduction: Reconsidering Family History PART I: POLITICS: RETHINKING KINSHIP, RETHINKING HOUSEHOLDS 1. Sons, Cousins, and Caciques: Breaking and Remaking Kinship Ties in Indigenous Florida 2. Family and Motherhood in a New Nation PART II: INTERSECTIONS: RACE, POWER, AND FAMILY 3. Defining Home and Family among the Enslaved and the Enslavers 4. Domesticating Race: Household Labor and the Construction of Whiteness in Northern, Urban, Middle-Class Families, 1830-1880 5. Native American Families and the Boarding School System PART III: RESOURCES: WORKING-CLASS AND IMMIGRANT FAMILIES 6. Family Resources in the Progressive-Era United States 7. "More Than Bedtime Stories": Women Making and Relating the History of the Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Family Experience in America PART IV: PRECARITY: FAMILIES AS SITES OF OPPRESSION AND LIBERATION 8. "Blessed Are the Barren:" Black Queer Women's Critiques of Motherhood and Reproduction in the Early Twentieth Century 9. The Family and White Supremacy in the Jim Crow South: Racist Republican Motherhood 10. Forbidden Families, Outlaw Lives: Blue Lunden and her Family in Pre-Stonewall America PART V: CRITIQUE: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS ON FAMILIES AND POLICIES 11. Feminism and Family 12. The New Right, Christianity, and Family Values 13. Closing: Past and Present Families Bibliography Index
Biography
Sarah Potter is an associate professor of history at the University of Memphis. She writes about family, gender, and sexuality and is the author of Everybody Else: Adoption and the Politics of Domestic Diversity in Postwar America (2014).
