02939nam a2200409 a 4500 ebr10442132 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 100706s2010 ncua sb 001 0 eng d 2010027107 9780807834244 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807871621 (pbk : alk. paper) 9780807882320 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)698110362 n-us-ny F128.9.N4 H53 2010eb 305.48/8960730747 22 Hicks, Cheryl D., 1971- Talk with you like a woman [electronic resource] : African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890-1935 / Cheryl D. Hicks. Chapel Hill [N.C.] : University of North Carolina Press, 2010. xiv, 372 p. : ill. 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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. African American women Employment New York (State) New York. African American women New York (State) New York Social conditions. Sex role New York (State) New York History 19th century. Women's rights New York (State) New York History 19th century. Racism New York (State) New York History 20th century. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Gender & American culture. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10442132 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 246232 246232