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Riding Jane Crow : African American women on the American railroad

text Riding Jane Crow : African American women on the American railroad

Thaggert, Miriam

Summary
"Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad. As Jim Crow laws became more prevalent and forced Black Americans to 'ride Jim Crow' on the ra... Read more
Contents
Introduction: Off the tracks : race, gender, and the American railroad -- Ladies' space : an archive of Black women's railroad narratives -- A kiss in the dark : sexualizing Black female mobility -- Platform politics : the waiter carriers of Virgi... Read more
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Description
xi, 188 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher
University of Illinois Press 2022
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Peninsula Community Library 305.896 THA in Adult Available

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