Ellis Island Snow Globe

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.

• Preface: Respect and Reverence ixAcknowledgments xvIntroduction: Coming to Ellis Island 11. Breeders on a Golf Ball: Normalizing Sex at Ellis Island 412. Getting Dressed Up: The Displays of Frank Woodhull and the Policing of Gender 673. The Traffic in my Fantasy Butch 1074. Green Woman, Race Matters 1305. A Nation of Immigrants, or Whatever 1536. Immigrant Peddlers 1817. Product Packaging 2078. "Decide an Immigrant's Fate" 239Notes 263Bibliography 311Index 325

“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 “The Ellis Island Snow Globe is quite simply a great book. Destined to become a classic in contemporary cultural studies, it is one of the few books I’ve read in the last year or so that has taught me something new on every page.”-Henry Jenkins, coeditor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture “Much as she did in her earlier book, Barbie’s Queer Accessories, Erica Rand turns a kitsch artifact of consumer culture into a powerful tool for cultural analysis. In this insightful and engaging new work, she transforms an Ellis Island snow globe into a window through which we see how state control of borders and migrations structures sexuality, gender, desire, and family in unexpected ways. One of the best cultural studies books I’ve read in a long time.”-Susan Stryker, producer and codirector of Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria “Rand clearly demonstrates how the categories of liberty and citizenship depend precisely on particular kinds of exclusions-those individuals whose sexual identities and behaviors do not correspond with the dominant gendering and sexualizing of the statue herself.” - Sarah Banet-Weiser (American Quarterly)