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

Label

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

Title remainder

African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935

Statement of responsibility

Cheryl D. Hicks

Creator

• Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

Author

• Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-

Subject

• 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

Member of

• Gender & American culture

Cataloging source

N$T

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Gender and American culture