Talk with you like a woman : African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935
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| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gender & American culture.
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 372 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-354) and index. |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2010]
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| ISBN: | 9780807834244 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807834246 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807871621 (pbk : alk. paper) 0807871621 (pbk : alk. paper) |
Table of Contents:
- Talk with you like a woman
- 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
- Thank God I am independent one more time.