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TALK WITH YOU LIKE A WOMAN


AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN, JUSTICE, AND REFORM IN NEW YORK, 1890-1935


BY CHERYL D. HICKS

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392 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 14 illus., notes, bibl., index

 * Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-7162-1
   Published: December 2010
 * E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-8232-0
   Published: December 2010
 * E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-7542-6
   Published: December 2010


GENDER AND AMERICAN CULTURE


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AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS

2011 Letitia Woods Brown Book Award, Association of Black Women Historians

Honorable Mention, 2011 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, American Studies
Association

Honorable Mention, 2011 Darlene Clark Hine Award, Organization of American
Historians

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.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cheryl D. Hicks is assistant professor of history at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte.
For more information about Cheryl D. Hicks, visit the Author Page.

REVIEWS

“[Hicks] gives voice to women who have not been studied thus far. Recommended.
Undergraduate and graduate studies.” --Choice



"A masterly study of black women, reform, and the criminal justice
system."--Journal of American History



“A remarkable collection of individual stories . . . . Hicks succeeds in opening
up a new conversation about early twentieth-century New York, one in which black
working-class women’s voices are finally heard.”--American Historical Review



"An excellent, often riveting series of portraits of working-class black women
in New York City whose lives intersect with social reform, city policing, the
first sexual revolution, and the great migration of southern African Americans
to the North. Hicks provides an ambitious and important corrective to the scant
treatment of these women by academic historians."--Patricia Schechter, Portland
State University



"This creative, cross-disciplinary book will make significant contributions to
African American and women's history, as well as sociology and legal studies.
Hicks brings a fresh perspective to under-researched topics and much-needed
revision to long-held assumptions about the dynamics of class and moral reform
issues among African Americans."--Tera Hunter, author of To 'Joy My Freedom:
Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War





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