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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Jones, Jacqueline, 1948- Labor of love, labor of sorrow. New York : Basic Books, ©1985 (OCoLC)563872640 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jacqueline Jones |
ISBN: | 0465037569 9780465037568 0394745361 9780394745367 |
OCLC Number: | 11399213 |
Awards: | Bancroft Prize, 1986. |
Description: | xiii, 432 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | "My mother was much of a woman": slavery -- Freed women? The Civil War and reconstruction -- A bridge of "bent backs and laboring muscles": the rural south, 1880-1915 -- Between the cotton field and the ghetto: the urban south, 1880-1915 -- "To get out of this land of sufring": black women migrants to the north, 1900-1930 -- Harder times: the Great Depression -- The roots of two revolutions, 1940-1955 -- The struggle confirmed and transformed, 1955-1980. |
Responsibility: | Jacqueline Jones. |
Abstract:
An historical study of the roles of Black women examines the weight of racial prejudice and sexual discrimination on the dual responsibilities of Black women as bread winners and guardians of family and community stability.
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