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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Valk, Anne M., 1964-     Subjects     African American women -- Southern States -- Interviews.     African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.     African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.     Racism -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.     Sexism -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.     Interviews -- Southern States.     Oral history.     Southern States -- Race relations -- Anecdotes.     Southern States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.     Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Valk, Anne M., 1964-       by title:      Living with Jim Crow...         MARC Display

Living with Jim Crow : African American women and memories of the segregated South / Anne Valk and Leslie Brown. by Valk, Anne M., 1964- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Subjects African American women -- Southern States -- Interviews.   African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.   African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.   Racism -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.   Sexism -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.   Interviews -- Southern States.   Oral history.   Southern States -- Race relations -- Anecdotes.   Southern States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.   Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Anecdotes. ISBN:  9780230619623 (hardback) 0230619622 (hardback) 9780230621527 (pbk.) : 023062152X (pbk.) Series:  Palgrave studies in oral history. Description:  xiii, 209 p., [4] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm. Edition:  1st ed. Contents:  We did well with what we had: remembering Black life behind the veil -- The foundation was there: growing up a girl in the Jim Crow South -- What is expected of you: gender and sexuality -- You are all under bondage, which is true: working lives -- A society totally our own: institutional and cultural life -- I like to get something done: fighting for social and political change -- Appendix A: List of interviews -- Appendix B: Sample edited transcript, from interview with Ila J. Blue. Requests:  0 Summary:  "This groundbreaking book collects black women's personal recollections of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South. Using first-person narratives, collected through oral history interviews, the book emphasizes women's role in their families and communities, treating women as important actors in the economic, social, cultural, and political life of the segregated South. By focusing on the commonalities of women's experiences, as well as the ways that women's lives differed from the experiences of southern black men, Living with Jim Crow analyzes the interlocking forces of racism and sexism"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 305.89607 Va Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wahiawa Public Library Adult Nonfiction 305.89607 Va Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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