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Limited choices : Mable Jones, a Black children's nurse in a northern white household
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Limited choices : Mable Jones, a Black children's nurse in a northern white household / Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson.
ISBN
9780813946658
0813946654
9780813946665
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021.
Physical Description
xiv, 215 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Summary
"Limited Choices tells about the life of Mable Jones, an African American domestic worker from Charlottesville employed in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. The authors, whose family employed Jones, use an oral interview and their own childhood memories as a starting point in piecing together Jones's life in an effort to investigate the impact of structural racism, and a discriminatory system their family helped uphold. The book treats three different settings-the poor rural South, Charlottesville, and the affluent suburb of Larchmont, New York-all places Mable Jones lived and worked"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Abel, Emily K. Limited choices Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 14, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"We had my home down there"
"While Jim Crow ruled the South"
Surviving in the Great Depression and World War II
"The social paradox in the North"
"Would you come up for six months or a year?"
"We marched from downtown . . . Up until Mt. Zion Church"
"Nobody left but Mable".
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