Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work

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Opportunity Denied Enobong Hannah Branch Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London Opportunity Denied Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Branch, Enobong Hannah, 1983– Opportunity denied : limiting Black women to devalued work / Enobong Hannah Branch. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–8135–5122–7 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978–0–8135– 5123–4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. African American women—Employment—History. 2. Sex discrimination against women—History. 3. Discrimination in employment—History. I.Title HD6057.5.U5B73 2011 331.4089’96073—dc22 2010048424 A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. Copyright © 2011 by Enobong Hannah Branch All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 100 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854–8099.The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. Visit our Web site: http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu Manufactured in the United States of America For my daughter, Jocelyn ...