Limited choices : Mable Jones, a Black children's nurse in a northern white household / Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abel, Emily K., author.

Nelson, Margaret K., 1944- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jones, Mable (Mable Walls), 1909-1995.

Jones, Mable.

Nelson, Margaret K., 1944-.

Nelson, Margaret K.

African American women household employees--Biography.

African American women household employees.

African American women civil rights workers--Biography.

African American women civil rights workers.

African Americans--Migrations.

History.

African American women--Social conditions.

African American women--Social conditions--20th century.

African American women.

African Americans--Migrations--History--20th century.

African Americans.

Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century.

Migration, Internal.

United States.

United States--Race relations--History--20th century.

Race relations.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xiv, 215 pages: illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Limited Choices tells about the life of Mable Jones, an African American domestic worker from Charlottesville employed in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. The authors, whose family employed Jones, use an oral interview and their own childhood memories as a starting point in piecing together Jones's life in an effort to investigate the impact of structural racism, and a discriminatory system their family helped uphold. The book treats three different settings-the poor rural South, Charlottesville, and the affluent suburb of Larchmont, New York-all places Mable Jones lived and worked"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. "We Had My Home Down There"

2. "While Jim Crow Ruled the South"

3. Surviving in the Great Depression and World War II

4. "The Social Paradox in the North"

5. "Would You Come Up for Six Months or a Year?"

6. "We Marched from Downtown ... up until Mt. Zion Church"

7. "Nobody Left but Mable".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Abel, Emily K. Limited choices

ISBN:

9780813946658

0813946654

OCLC:

1245579606