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Author Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971- author.

Title Talk with you like a woman : African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 / Cheryl D. Hicks
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 372 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Series Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-354) and index
Notes Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed August 4, 2021)
Subject African American women -- Employment -- New York (State) -- New York
African American women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- History
Sex role -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
Women's rights -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
Racism -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
African American women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African American women -- Employment
African American women -- Social conditions
Racism
Sex role
Women's rights
New York (State) -- New York
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780807882320
0807882321
9781469603759
1469603756