Limited Choices

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"Limited Choices tells about the life of Mable Jones, an African American domestic worker from Charlottesville employed in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s. The authors, whose family employed Jones, use an oral interview and their own childhood memories as a starting point in piecing together Jones's life in an effort to investigate the impact of structural racism, and a discriminatory system their family helped uphold. The book treats three different settings-the poor rural South, Charlottesville, and the affluent suburb of Larchmont, New York-all places Mable Jones lived and worked"--

subjects: African American women household employees,  Biography,  African American women civil rights workers,  African American women,  Social conditions,  African Americans,  Migrations,  History,  Internal Migration,  Race relations,  Employées de maison noires américaines,  Biographies,  Défenseuses des droits de l'homme noires américaines,  Noires américaines,  Conditions sociales,  Relations raciales,  Histoire