| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887–1917. By Brian Donovan. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. xii, 186 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-252-03025-7.)

Early twentieth-century Americans seemed obsessed with white slavery crusades, efforts to extirpate prostitution that launched dozens of urban vice investigations, a spate of state legislation, and ultimately, passage of the federal Mann Act (or the White Slave Traffic Act) in 1910, criminalizing the interstate transportation of women for "immoral purposes." That preoccupation was not merely the result of an urban panic but reflected as well Americans' efforts to negotiate a rapidly changing gender and racial order. In this well-researched and nuanced study of anti-vice efforts in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco, Brian Donovan explores the "reactions of native-born whites to new immigrant groups in Chicago; to African Americans in New York City; and to Chinese immigrants in San Francisco," deftly revealing the commonalities and differences among anti-vice crusaders in these distinct urban settings (p. 4).

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