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The Ellis Island Snow Globe Paperback - 2005

by Erica Rand

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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.

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""The Ellis Island Snow Globe" is a wonderfully creative, playful, and serious piece of scholarship. Demonstrating that pleasure and critique need not be incompatible, Erica Rand offers not only a model for thinking about contemporary capitalism but a way to live in it."--Miranda Joseph, author of "Against the Romance of Community"

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  • Title The Ellis Island Snow Globe
  • Author Erica Rand
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 360
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, Durham
  • Publication date 2005-09-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780822335917 / 0822335913
  • Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.24 x 0.89 in (22.86 x 15.85 x 2.26 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
    • Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
    • Locality: New York, N.Y.
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Consumption (Economics) - Social aspects -, Ellis Island Immigration Station (N.Y. and
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004030134
  • Dewey Decimal Code 304.873

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  • Booklist, 08/01/2005, Page 1962

About the author

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.

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