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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Cynthia M Blair |
ISBN: | 022659758X 9780226597584 |
OCLC Number: | 1076273918 |
Description: | xiii, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | "A class we have barely mentioned" -- "The sources of courtesanship": African American women's wage work, the informal economy and the search for independence -- Working the prostitution economy, 1870-1900 -- Race and the spatial boundaries of respectability -- Race and the reconstruction of the urban sex economy, 1900-1915 -- Leisure culture and the commercialization of black women's sex work, 1900-1920 -- Rage and rescue: African American anti-vice reform strategies -- "This way of livin' sure is hard." |
Series Title: | Historical studies of urban America. |
Responsibility: | Cynthia M. Blair. |
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by kmhall updated 2019-11-05