Autorentext

Micki McElya is a professor of history at the University of Connecticut, specializing in the histories of women, gender, race, and sexuality in the United States from the Civil War to the present, with an emphasis on political culture and memory. Her most recent book, The Politics of Mourning: Death and Honor in Arlington National Cemetery was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and received a number of other accolades; her 2007 book, Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America was the cowinner of a 2007 Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. McElya has written for The Atlantic and Boston Review, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, MSNBC, The Nation, Elle, and more. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and New York University and is a Distinguished Lecturer for the Organization of American histories. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Klappentext

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and historian Micki McElya, a sweeping work of history in the tradition of Rick Perlstein and Stacy Schiff that, for the first time, fully explores a critical but often-overlooked moment in our history—the September 1968 dual protests of the Miss America and Miss Black America pageants in Atlantic City—and its lasting impact on the trajectory of women's rights in America.