What a woman ought to be and to do : Black professional women workers during the Jim Crow era /

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In a highly original study of women, race, and class, Stephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of black professional women during the Jim Crow era. This is a story of struggle and empowerment, of the strength of a group of women who worked against daunting odds to improve the world for themse...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shaw, Stephanie J. (Stephanie Jo), 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Colección:Women in culture and society.
Temas:
African American women in the professions > History.
African Americans.
African Americans
Noires américaines dans les professions libérales > Histoire.
Noirs américains.
African American.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
African American women in the professions.
Schwarze Frau
Berufstätigkeit
Geschichte
United States > History.
États-Unis > Histoire.
United States.
USA.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Catharine R. Stimpson
  • 1. "Aim always to attain excellence in character and culture": Child-rearing strategies
  • 2. "The daughters of our community coming up": Developing community consciousness
  • 3. "We are not educating individuals but manufacturing levers": Schooling reinforcements
  • 4. "I am teaching school here ... [but] I find it rather hard ... with my housekeeping": Private sphere work
  • 5. "It was time ... that we should be members": Personal professional work
  • 6. "Working for my race in one way or another ever since I was a grown woman": Public sphere work.

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