Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work

Contents

Contents List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Hierarchies of Preference at Work: 8 The Need for an Intersectional Approach 2. As Good as Any Man: Black Women 26 in Farm Labor 3. Excellent Servants: Domestic Service 49 as Black Women’s Work 4. Existing on the Industrial Fringe: 71 Black Women in the Factory 5. Your Blues Ain’t Nothing Like Mine: Race 97 and Gender as Keys to Occupational Opportunity 6. The Illusion of Progress: Black Women’s Work 127 in the Post–Civil Rights Era Appendix 155 Notes 163 Index 183 vii ...