Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit (Gender and American Culture)

Remaking Respectability: African American Women in Interwar Detroit (Gender and American Culture)

by VictoriaW.Wolcott (Author)

Synopsis

Detroit's black population grew exponentially in the early decades of the 20th century. This work examines how the women served not just as models of bourgeois respectability, but began to shape traditional standards of deportment in response to the new realities of their lives.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 360
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 30 Sep 2001

ISBN 10: 0807849669
ISBN 13: 9780807849668