In Cathleen Cahill's Recasting the Vote, Cahill focuses on the experiences of Latinas, Native women, Black women, and Chinese women, and argues that women of color are central to the fight for the vote at the turn of the twentieth century. By using “women of color,” Cahill recognizes that the term encompasses the diversity of women's racial and ethnic backgrounds and their contributions to the suffrage movement beyond the Northeast (p. 284). This book has set the bar for understanding the historical implications of the suffrage movement through the eyes of women of color in early twentieth-century America.
The book centers on the lives of Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, Adelina “Nina” Luna Otero-Warren, Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Yankton Dakota Sioux), Carrie Williams Clifford, and Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin (Turtle Mountain Chippewa and French heritage). To capture each woman's unique contributions, Cahill takes a case study and biographical approach...
