Remaking Respectability
Subtitle: African American Women in Interwar Detroit
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 8, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780807826379
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Black studies; Cultural studies; Social history; Women's studies; Women's Studies - General; 20th century; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Women's Studies - History; Black American Sociology; Women In The U.S.; United States - 20th Century; History; Sociology; Social classes; History: American; Michigan; Social Science / Women's Studies; United States - State & Local - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; African American women; Detroit; Economic conditions; Social conditions
First sentence: When Mary Etta Glenn migrated from Bibb County, Georgia, to Detroit in 1917, she left behind her mother, grandmother, and aunt, but she carried the ideas and values she was raised to uphold.