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9780807871621 (pbk : alk. paper)

Project MUSE - UPCC Archive Complete Supplement.

Project MUSE - UPCC Archive US Regional Studies, New England and Mid Atlantic Supplement.

Gender and American culture

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.

African American women > Employment > New York (State) > New York.

African American women > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions.

Racism > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.

Sex role > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.

Women's rights > New York (State) > New York > History > 19th century.