Respectable Woman

The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York

Autor: Jane E. Dabel

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In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by...

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Autor

Jane E. Dabel

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2008

Pagini

256

EAN

9780814720110

ISBN

0814720110

Enbook ID

04931056

Editura

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Greutate

538

Dimensiuni

160 x 238 x 25

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In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by European immigration, the growth of a native-born population, and the expansion of one of the largest African American communities in the North. New York's free blacks were extremely politically active, lobbying for equal rights at home and an end to Southern slavery. As their activism increased, so did discrimination against them, most brutally illustrated by bloody attacks during the 1863 New York City Draft Riots. The struggle for civil rights did not extend to equal gender roles, and black male leaders encouraged women to remain in the domestic sphere, serving as caretakers, moral educators, and nurses to their families and community. Yet as Jane E. Dabel demonstrates, separate spheres were not a reality for New York City's black people, who faced dire poverty, a lopsided sex ratio, racialized violence, and a high mortality rate, all of which conspired to prevent men from gaining respectable employment and political clout. Consequently, many black women came out of the home and into the streets to work, build networks with other women, and fight against racial injustice. A Respectable Woman reveals the varied and powerful lives led by black women, who, despite the exhortations of male reformers, occupied public roles as gender and race reformers.

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