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Author Blair, Cynthia M.
Title I've got to make my livin' : black women's sex work in turn-of-the-century Chicago / Cynthia M. Blair.
Publication Info Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 2010.


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Descript xiii, 322 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents "A class we have barely mentioned" -- "The sources of courtesanship": African American women's wage work, the informal economy and the search for independence -- Working the prostitution economy, 1870-1900 -- Race and the spatial boundaries of respectability -- Race and the reconstruction of the urban sex economy, 1900-1915 -- Leisure culture and the commercialization of black women's sex work, 1900-1920 -- Rage and rescue: African American anti-vice reform strategies -- "This way of livin' sure is hard."
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0226055981
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Author Blair, Cynthia M.
Series Historical studies of urban America
Historical studies of urban America.
Subject Prostitution -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
African American women -- Sexual behavior -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Descript xiii, 322 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents "A class we have barely mentioned" -- "The sources of courtesanship": African American women's wage work, the informal economy and the search for independence -- Working the prostitution economy, 1870-1900 -- Race and the spatial boundaries of respectability -- Race and the reconstruction of the urban sex economy, 1900-1915 -- Leisure culture and the commercialization of black women's sex work, 1900-1920 -- Rage and rescue: African American anti-vice reform strategies -- "This way of livin' sure is hard."
ISBN 9780226055985
0226055981
Author Blair, Cynthia M.
Series Historical studies of urban America
Historical studies of urban America.
Subject Prostitution -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
African American women -- Sexual behavior -- Illinois -- Chicago.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 5th Floor  HQ 146 C4 B6  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Prostitution -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.
African American women -- Sexual behavior -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Descript xiii, 322 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents "A class we have barely mentioned" -- "The sources of courtesanship": African American women's wage work, the informal economy and the search for independence -- Working the prostitution economy, 1870-1900 -- Race and the spatial boundaries of respectability -- Race and the reconstruction of the urban sex economy, 1900-1915 -- Leisure culture and the commercialization of black women's sex work, 1900-1920 -- Rage and rescue: African American anti-vice reform strategies -- "This way of livin' sure is hard."
ISBN 9780226055985
0226055981
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