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Belabored Professions: Narratives of African American Working Womanhood Xiomara Santamarina New edition
Belabored Professions: Narratives of African American Working Womanhood
Xiomara Santamarina
According to nineteenth-century racial uplift ideology, African American women served their race best as reformers and activists. This book examines the autobiographies of four women who diverged from that ideal and defended the legitimacy of their self-supporting wage labor.
240 pages, 5 illustrations, notes, index
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 31, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780807856482 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 15 mm · 281 g |