Remaking Respectability
, by Wolcott, Victoria W.
- ISBN: 9780807849668 | 0807849669
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 8/1/2001
Examining black women's lives during the inter-war period in Detroit, Wolcott argues that by the 1930s, African Americans had remade notions of respectability, as the Great Depression & the problem of unemployment supplanted the earlier primacy of religious & moral concerns & a female, bourgeois ideology of racial uplift gave way to a masculine ideology of self-determination.
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