Talk with you like a woman African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 / [electronic resource] :
Cheryl D. Hicks.
- Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
- xiv, 372 p. : ill.
- Gender and American culture .
- Gender & American culture. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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African American women--Employment--New York (State)--New York. African American women--Social conditions.--New York (State)--New York Sex role--History--New York (State)--New York--19th century. Women's rights--History--New York (State)--New York--19th century. Racism--History--New York (State)--New York--20th century.