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: 9780807849668
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Black studies; Cultural studies; Social history; Women's studies; 20th century; History; United States - State & Local - General; Economic conditions; Sociology; Social conditions; History: American; Michigan; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; United States - 20th Century; Women's Studies - History; Social Science / Women's Studies; Women's Studies - General; Detroit; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; African American women; Social classes
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.