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Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2010

1 online resource (xiv, 372 p.) : ill

ISBN 9780807882320 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780807834244 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780807871621 (pbk : alk. paper)

Gender and 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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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