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Talk with you like a woman : African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 /
With this book, Cheryl Hicks brings to light the voices and viewpoints of black working-class women, especially southern migrants, who were the subjects of urban and penal reform in early twentieth-century New York. In need of support as they navigated the discriminatory labor and housing markets an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2010]
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| Colección: | Gender & American culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- To live a fuller and freer life : black women migrants' expectations and New York's urban realities, 1890-1927
- The only one that would be interested in me : police brutality, black women's protection, and the New York Race Riot of 1900
- I want to save these girls : single black women and their protectors, 1895-1911
- Colored women of hard and vicious character : respectability, domesticity, and crime, 1893-1933
- Tragedy of the colored girl in court : the National Urban League and New York's Women's Court, 1911-1931
- In danger of becoming morally depraved : single black women, working-class black families, and New York State's Wayward Minor Laws, 1917-1928
- A rather bright and good-looking colored girl : black women's sexuality, "harmful intimacy," and attempts to regulate desire, 1917-1928
- I don't live on my sister, I living of myself : parole, gender, and black families, 1905-1935
- She would be better off in the South : sending women on parole to their southern kin, 1920-1935
- Conclusion: thank god I am independent one more time.