Living with Jim Crow : African American women and memories of the segregated South / Anne Valk and Leslie Brown
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Object Details
- Author
- Valk, Anne M. 1964-
- Brown, Leslie 1954-
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: We Did Well With What We Had: Remembering Black Life behind the Veil * Kin to Everybody: Childhood * Crossing Over into another World: Personal Relationships across the Lifespan * You are All under Bondage, which is True: Working Lives * A Society Totally Our Own: Institutional and Cultural Life in Black Communities * I Like to Get Something Done: Fighting for Social and Political Change
- Summary
- "This groundbreaking book collects black women's personal recollections of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South. Using first-person narratives, collected through oral history interviews, the book emphasizes women's role in their families and communities, treating women as important actors in the economic, social, cultural, and political life of the segregated South. By focusing on the commonalities of women's experiences, as well as the ways that women's lives differed from the experiences of southern black men, Living with Jim Crow analyzes the interlocking forces of racism and sexism"--Provided by publisher.
- 2010
- 20th century
- Type
- Interviews
- Anecdotes
- Biography
- Physical description
- xiii, 209 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm
- Place
- Southern States
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Topic
- African American women
- African Americans--Segregation--History
- African Americans--Social conditions
- Racism--History
- Sexism--History
- Interviews
- Oral history
- Race relations
- Social conditions
- Record ID
- siris_sil_939038
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0