Historical catalog and essays reveal the story of the Mexican artisans of Hull House and the history of the kilns and pottery. Exploring the untold stories of Hull-House arts programs in the 1920s and 1930s and the pottery program at the commercial Hull-House Kilns, Pots of Promise also addresses the story of Mexicans in Chicago and the history of Hull-House in the years when Jane Addams increasingly turned her attention beyond the settlement house she had co-founded. This book is the first on the Hull-House Kilns; it examines Mexicans in the Hull-House colonia, Chicago's largest Mexican...
Historical catalog and essays reveal the story of the Mexican artisans of Hull House and the history of the kilns and pottery. Exploring the untold st...
"It enhances our understanding of intracultural and cross-cultural relationships and raises significant questions about the complexities of the colonial phenomenon in the modern era." --Journal of World History
"Provides a powerful and important analysis foregrounding the ideological construction of whiteness in understandings of gender and sexuality.... Margaret Strobel manages to provide a convincing analysis of the contradictory and often challenging space occupied by European women in the project of empire."--Signs
"Strobel is to be highly commended for an historical...
"It enhances our understanding of intracultural and cross-cultural relationships and raises significant questions about the complexities of the col...
"This is altogether a most worthwhile book, a fine example of a growing genre of African literature... " Choice
"Mirza and Strobel let these women speak about their lives in their own words, and the results are wonderful.... This is an excellent book with which to introduce students both to Africa and to life histories... " American Historical Review
This exploration of the lives of three Mombasa women reveals the complexity of Swahili society its ethnic diversity, the impact of slavery, and the varied reactions to colonialism and Western culture. They illustrate the rich...
"This is altogether a most worthwhile book, a fine example of a growing genre of African literature... " Choice
