Limited Choices
Mable Jones, a Black Children's Nurse in a Northern White Household
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Author
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
- Open LibraryOL34151540M
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"--
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