Talk with you like a woman : African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 / Cheryl D. Hicks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

Series:

Gender & American culture

Gender and American culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

African American women.

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

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

Sex role.

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

Women's rights.

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

Racism.

History.

Social conditions.

African American women--Employment.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

xiv, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

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 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807834244

0807834246

9780807871621

0807871621

OCLC:

607975625