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Limited choices : Mable Jones, a Black children's nurse in a northern white household
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"Limited Choices tells about the life of Mable Jones, an African American domestic worker from Charlottesville employed in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. The authors, whose family employed J...
"Limited Choices tells about the life of Mable Jones, an African American domestic worker from Charlottesville employed in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. The authors, whose family employed Jones, use an oral interview and their own childhood memories as a starting point in piecing together Jones's life in an effort to investigate the impact of structural racism, and a discriminatory system their family helped uphold. The book treats three different settings-the poor rural South, Charlottesville, and the affluent suburb of Larchmont, New York-all places Mable Jones lived and worked"--
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- Creator
- Emily K. Abel and Margaret K. Nelson
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- English
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- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2021
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- xiv, 215 pages: illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0813946654, 9780813946665, 9780813946658
- OCLC
- on1289819759, on1245579606
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "We had my home down there" -- "While Jim Crow ruled the South" -- Surviving in the Great Depression and World War II -- "The social paradox in the North" -- "Would you come up for six months or a year?" -- "We marched from downtown . . . Up until Mt. Zion Church" -- "Nobody left but Mable"
Subjects
- Jones, Mable (Mable Walls), 1909-1995.
- Nelson, Margaret K., 1944-
- African American women household employees -- Biography.
- African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.
- African American women -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century.
- Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.