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Beyond Respectability
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Pages: 286
Authors: Brittney C. Cooper
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-03 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Beyond Respectability charts the development of African American women as public intellectuals and the evolution of their thought from the end of the 1800s thro
Remaking Respectability
Language: en
Pages: 355
Authors: Victoria W. Wolcott
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-01 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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In the early decades of the twentieth century, tens of thousands of African Americans arrived at Detroit's Michigan Central Station, part of the Great Migration
Righteous Discontent
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-03-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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What Du Bois noted has gone largely unstudied until now. In this book, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham gives us our first full account of the crucial role of black w
Respectability and Reform
Language: en
Pages: 339
Authors: Tara M. McCarthy
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-02 - Publisher: Syracuse University Press

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In the late nineteenth century, an era in which women were expanding the influence outside the home, Irish American women carved out unique opportunities to ser
Respectability on Trial
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Brian Donovan
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-21 - Publisher: State University of New York Press

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Providing a front row seat at critical courtroom battles over seduction, pimping, rape, and sodomy in early twentieth-century New York City, Brian Donovan uses