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Talk with You Like a Woman
African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935
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Talk with You Like a Woman
African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935
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With this book, Cheryl Hicks brings to light the voices and viewpoints of black working-class women, especially southern migrants, who were the subjects of urban and penal reform in early-twentieth-century New York. Hicks compares the ideals of racial uplift and reform programs of middle-class white and black activists to the experiences and perspectives of those whom they sought to protect and, often, control.
In need of support as they navigated the discriminatory labor and housing markets and contended with poverty, maternity, and domestic violence, black women instead found themselves subject to hostility from black leaders, urban reformers, and the police. Still, these black working-class women struggled to uphold their own standards of respectable womanhood. Through their actions as well as their words, they challenged prevailing views regarding black women and morality in urban America. Drawing on extensive archival research, Hicks explores the complexities of black working-class women’s lives and illuminates the impact of racism and sexism on early-twentieth-century urban reform and criminal justice initiatives.
In need of support as they navigated the discriminatory labor and housing markets and contended with poverty, maternity, and domestic violence, black women instead found themselves subject to hostility from black leaders, urban reformers, and the police. Still, these black working-class women struggled to uphold their own standards of respectable womanhood. Through their actions as well as their words, they challenged prevailing views regarding black women and morality in urban America. Drawing on extensive archival research, Hicks explores the complexities of black working-class women’s lives and illuminates the impact of racism and sexism on early-twentieth-century urban reform and criminal justice initiatives.
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index
- Abbott, Edith, 113
- Abbott, Jane, 66-67
- Abelson, Elaine, 154
- Accommodationism, 7, 27, 98
- Acuna, Chile Mapocha, 179-80
- Addams, Jane, 186, 188
- African American urban life: dangers of, 3, 14-15
- and race relations, 5, 9, 24, 47, 48
- and black southern migrants, 5-6, 7, 26-27, 30, 62-63, 274
- and demographic changes, 5-6, 25-26
- and Caribbean black immigrants, 5-6, 26, 274-75, 282-83 (n. 15)
- and economic survival, 12, 13, 24, 40-41
- history of, 25-29
- and housing market, 26, 42-45
- and excess in population of working-class black women, 29-31, 91
- Du Bois on, 30
- and morality, 32, 36, 256
- and labor market, 37-41
- and black southern women migrants, 44-45, 253-54, 256, 257
- and parole in New York, 247, 251
- and parole in South, 259, 261-64, 267, 268, 269
- African Blood Brotherhood (ABB), 169, 172, 173, 275
- Alexander, Ruth, 315 (n. 18), 316 (n. 41), 329 (n. 48)
- Antiblack violence: and African American urban life, 5, 6
- and black southern women migrants, 7
- protection of black communities from, 14, 17, 54, 74, 78-79, 83, 89, 275
- and parole in South, 19, 255
- and Great Migration, 26
- resurgence of, 26
- and Tenderloin race riot of 1900, 70, 71-73
- southern and northern violence compared, 70-71, 292 (n. 90)
- and racial justice, 89
- and Kellor, 116. See also Lynchings
- Archer, Alice, 66, 68
- Arena, 114
- Armstrong, Samuel Chapman, 100
- Associations for the Protection of Colored Women, 93
- Atlanta Family Welfare Society, 266
- Auburn. See New York State Prison for Women at Auburn
- Babbitt, Dean Richmond, 70
- Baker, Amos: and parole in New York, 201, 240, 242, 243, 245, 249, 251
- and Hampton, 210, 230, 240
- and parole in South, 257, 259-60, 262-64, 266
- Baker, Ray Stannard, 118
- Barkley Brown, Elsa, 12-13, 54, 290 (n. 55), 319 (n. 12)
- Barrett, Janie Porter, 260, 261
- Battle, Sam...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- TALK WITH YOU LIKE A WOMAN
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- illustrations
- acknowledgments
- introduction TALK WITH YOU LIKE A WOMAN
- I AFRICAN AMERICAN URBAN LIFE AND THE MULTIPLE MEANINGS OF PROTECTION IN THE CITY
- II URBAN REFORM AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE
- III REHABILITATION, RESPECTABILITY, AND RACE
- conclusion THANK GOD I AM INDEPENDENT ONE MORE TIME
- notes
- bibliography
- index