Publication

2021 - University of Virginia Press

Language

English

Word Count

50,000 words, Guess

Page Count

200 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780813946658
  • ISBN-100813946654
  • Library of Congress Control Number2021023498
  • OCLC Control Number1245579606
  • Better World Books9780813946658
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCE185.97.J7743 A64 2021

Description

"Limited Choices tells about the life of Mable Jones, an African American domestic worker from Charlottesville employed in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. The authors, whose family employed Jones, use an oral interview and their own childhood memories as a starting point in piecing together Jones's life in an effort to investigate the impact of structural racism, and a discriminatory system their family helped uphold. The book treats three different settings-the poor rural South, Charlottesville, and the affluent suburb of Larchmont, New York-all places Mable Jones lived and worked"--

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Limited Choices: Mable Jones, a Black Children's Nurse in a Northern White HouseholdUniversity of Virginia Press2021-01-01

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