‘Neither citizen nor alien’: Migration, Territoriality, and Malfunctioning Empire in the US Virgin Islands
<span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">In 1924, Leander Holder, an Afro-Danish housewife living in New York City, attempted to buy a steamship ticket home after a visit to the US Virgin Islands. The steamship company refused to sell her passage, arguing that she lacked the nee...
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Journal of Transnational American Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://escholarship.org/uc/item/24k7423t |