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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Series:	Gender & American culture.
Subjects:	Racism > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century. Women's rights > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century. Sex role > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century. African American women > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions. African American women > Employment > New York (State) > New York. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : 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
Conclusion : Thank God I am independent one more time.