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.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 and black activists to the experiences and perspectives of those whom they sought to protect and, often, control. In need of support as they navigated the discriminatory labor and housing markets and contended with poverty, maternity, and domestic violence, black women instead found themsel

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908754-2-6

979-88-9313-140-6

1-4696-0375-6

0-8078-8232-1

OCLC:

698110362