Limited Choices: Mable Jones, a Black Children's Nurse in a Northern White Household

It documents the slow progress of change for many African Americans in the South, explores the still little-known experiences of Black household workers in the suburban North, and reconstructs the textured lives that Mable Jones and the many women like her nevertheless carved out in a system that was and continues to be stacked against them.

Author: Emily K. Abel, Margaret K. Nelson
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 10/29/2021
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 9.20h x 8.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780813946658

About the Author

Emily K. Abel is Professor Emerita and Research Professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and author of, among other works, Sick and Tired: A History of Fatigue and Tuberculosis and the Politics of Exclusion: A History of Public Health and Migration to Los Angeles. Margaret K. Nelson is Professor of Sociology Emerita at Middlebury College and author of, among other works, Like Family: Narratives of Fictive Kinship and The Social Economy of Single Motherhood: Raising Children in Rural America.