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Limited Choices - Mable Jones, a Black Children's Nurse in a Northern White Household (Hardcover)
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Limited Choices - Mable Jones, a Black Children's Nurse in a Northern White Household (Hardcover)
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When interviewed by the Charlottesville, Virginia, Ridge Street
Oral History Project, which documented the lives of Black residents
in the 1990s, Mable Jones described herself as a children's nurse,
recounting her employment in New York City in the 1940s and 1950s.
Emily Abel and Margaret Nelson, whose mother employed Jones, use
the 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 is situated in three different
settings-the poor rural South, Charlottesville, and the affluent
suburb of Larchmont, New York-all places that Mable Jones lived and
worked. Mable Jones was emblematic of her race, gender, time, and
place. Like many African Americans born around 1900, she lived
first in a rural community before moving to a city. She had to
leave school after the eighth grade and worked until a year before
her death. And her occupation was that held by the majority of
African American women through the twentieth century. Reflecting on
her life, local civil rights leader Eugene Williams asked the
authors to document the "segregation in Charlottesville that Mrs.
Jones endured." This book honors his charge by highlighting the
limited choices available to her. 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.
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