Talk with You Like a Woman African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935

Name: Talk with You Like a Woman African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935
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ISBN: 9780807871621

ISBN-10: 0807871621

ISBN-13: 9780807871621

Edition: 2010

Authors: Cheryl D. Hicks

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Book details

Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 12/13/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Cheryl D. Hicks is assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Talk with You Like a Woman



African American Urban Life and the Multiple Meanings of Protection in the City



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



Urban Reform and Criminal Justice



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



Rehabilitation, Respectability, and Race



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


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