Talk with you like a woman African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935

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Title:

Talk with you like a woman African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935

Author:

Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

Personal Author:

Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

Publication Information:

Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Physical Description:

xiv, 372 p. : ill.

Series:

Gender and American culture

Gender & American culture.

Contents:

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.

Subject Term:

African American women -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York.

African American women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.

Sex role -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.

Women's rights -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.

Racism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Added Corporate Author:

ProQuest (Firm)

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Shelf Number	Item Barcode	Shelf Location	Status
F128.9 .N4 H53 2010	973433-1001	Ebook Central	Searching...

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