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The launch of Journal of Women's History occurred as Americanist women's and gender history was undergoing a profound transformation caused by increased analytical attention to "race" and ethnicity. Within a year of the Journal's emergence, Vicki Ruiz and Ellen Carol DuBois published the first edition of their landmark anthology, Unequal Sisters , in which they encouraged Americanist women's and gender historians to eschew "biracial approach[es]" and embrace a "kaleidoscopic" angle of vision that would permit "many pasts … [to] be explored simultaneously." This article reviews Americanist gender scholarship on race and ethnicity that has been produced over the last twenty-five years. Work on race, ethnicity, and gender has revealed sundry social, political, cultural, and economic dynamics within U.S. history. It is arguably the case, however, that Americanist women's and gender historians could productively analyze multiple racial and ethnic groups together on a more sustained basis.

In 1989, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham observed that African Americanists paid scant attention to issues of gender and women's historians typically ignored questions of race; she warned that this silence compromised the very analysis of US history. Much has changed since Higginbotham issued her cautionary words. Not only has Americanist literature on gender and race grown exponentially over the past ten years, African‐Americanist gender historians have produced some of the most influential monographs and articles in their field. This article surveys a decade's worth of conceptual breakthroughs in African‐Americanist historiography as it ponders the question of whether certain silences still remain.

Introduction: gender, imperialism and global exchanges / Michele Mitchell and Naoko Shibusawa with Stephan F. Miescher -- The sexual politics of imperial expansion: eunuchs and indirect colonial rule in mid-nineteenth-century north India / Jessica Hinchy -- Remaking Anglo-Indian men: agricultural labour as remedy in the British Empire, 1908-38 / Jane McCabe -- 'Robot farmers' and cosmopolitan workers: technological masculinity and agricultural development in the French Soudan (Mali), 1945-68 / Laura Ann Twagira -- Pursuing her profits: women in Jamaica, Atlantic slavery and a globalising market, 1700-60 / Christine Walker -- Fashioning their place: dress and global imagination in imperial Sudan / Marie Grace Brown -- The transnational homophile movement and the development of domesticity in Mexico City's homosexual community, 1930-70 / Víctor M. Macías-González -- Dressed for success: hegemonic masculinity, elite men and Westernisation in Iran, c.1900-40 / Sivan Balslev -- 'It gave us our nationality': US education, the politics of dress and transnational Filipino student networks, 1901-45 / Sarah Steinbock-Pratt -- 'A life of make-believe': being Boy Scouts and 'playing Indian' in British Malaya (1910-42) / Jialin Christina Wu -- The tank driver who ran with poodles: US visions of Israeli soldiers and the Cold War liberal consensus, 1958-79 / Shaul Mitelpunkt -- Mobility and activism : Marta Vergara, popular-front pan-American feminism and the transnational struggle for working women's tights in the 1930s / Katherine M. Marino -- Guerrilla ganja gun girls: policing black revolutionaries from Notting Hill to Laventille / W. Chris Johnson -- Gender and visuality: identification photographs, respectability and personhood in colonial southern Africa in the 1920s and 1930s / Lorena Rizzo.

This book presents a collection of original readings that address gendered dimensions of empire from a wide range of geographical and temporal settings.