Talk with You Like a Woman : African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935 /

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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. Hicks compares the ideals of racial uplift and reform programs of middle-class white...

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Autor principal: Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women's rights.
Sex role.
Racism.
African American women > Social conditions.
African American women > Employment.
Racisme > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Femmes > Droits > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Rôle selon le sexe > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noires americaines > New York (État) > New York > Conditions sociales.
Noires americaines > Travail > New York (État) > New York.
Racism > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Women's rights > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
Sex role > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.
African American women > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions.
African American women > Employment > New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York.
History.
Electronic books.
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  • 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's protectors
  • the White Rose Home and the National League for the Protection of Colored Women, 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.

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