The Resource Talk with you like a woman : African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935, Cheryl D. Hicks
Talk with you like a woman : African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935, Cheryl D. Hicks
- 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. 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 themselves subject to hostility from black leaders, urban reformers, and the police. Through their actions as well as their words, black working-class women challenged prevailing views regarding black women and mor
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 372 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781469603759
- Label
- Talk with you like a woman : African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935
- Title
- Talk with you like a woman
- Title remainder
- African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935
- Statement of responsibility
- Cheryl D. Hicks
- Subject
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- African American women -- New York (State) -- New York | Social conditions | History
- Racism -- New York (State) -- New York | History -- 20th century
- African American women -- New York (State) | New York -- Social conditions | History
- African American women -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York
- History
- African American women -- Employment -- New York (State) | New York
- Social Science
- Women's rights -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 19th century
- Women's rights -- New York (State) -- New York | History -- 19th century
- Sex role -- New York (State) -- New York | History -- 19th century
- Racism -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
- Sex role -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 19th century
- Language
- eng
- 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. 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 themselves subject to hostility from black leaders, urban reformers, and the police. Through their actions as well as their words, black working-class women challenged prevailing views regarding black women and mor
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Gender and American culture
- Label
- Talk with you like a woman : African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935, Cheryl D. Hicks
- Related Subjects
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- African American women -- New York (State) -- New York | Social conditions | History
- Racism -- New York (State) -- New York | History -- 20th century
- African American women -- New York (State) | New York -- Social conditions | History
- African American women -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York
- History
- African American women -- Employment -- New York (State) | New York
- Social Science
- Women's rights -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 19th century
- Women's rights -- New York (State) -- New York | History -- 19th century
- Sex role -- New York (State) -- New York | History -- 19th century
- Racism -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
- Sex role -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 19th century
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-354) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
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- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiv, 372 pages)
- File format
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- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781469603759
- Level of compression
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- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
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- Media type code
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits.
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
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- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
Subject
- African American women -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York
- African American women -- Employment -- New York (State) | New York
- African American women -- New York (State) -- New York | Social conditions | History
- African American women -- New York (State) | New York -- Social conditions | History
- History
- Racism -- New York (State) -- New York | History -- 20th century
- Racism -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 20th century
- Sex role -- New York (State) -- New York | History -- 19th century
- Sex role -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 19th century
- Social Science
- Women's rights -- New York (State) -- New York | History -- 19th century
- Women's rights -- New York (State) | New York -- History -- 19th century
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